Kharanorskaya is a 655 MW coal power station in Transbaikal Territory, Russia. It is operated by JSC INTER RAO-Electric Power Generation. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 819,685 homes (estimated). It ranks #84 of 545 Russia power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1995, it is around 31 years old — long-established. In context, coal supplies about 18.4% of Russia's electricity; the national grid averages 450 gCO₂/kWh (35.7% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1003728.
This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:
Estimated, not measured: from installed capacity at a typical 50% load factor × a typical coal emission factor (~1000 g CO₂/kWh, IPCC AR5 / US EIA). Actual emissions depend on plant efficiency and running hours.Equivalencies via US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by JSC INTER RAO-Electric Power Generation. All plants by this company →
This coal plant burns coal to raise high-pressure steam that spins a turbine-generator. It sits in a monsoon subarctic climate (Köppen Dwc) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 50.9°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.
Climate zone & typical temperatures: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid).
The #17 largest coal power plant of 96 in Russia by capacity.
Russia has 96 coal power plants in this dataset, together about 46,072 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 50.8539, 115.7 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
