Kharanorskaya is a 665 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 832k homes (estimated). It ranks #116 of 678 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.
Known, modelled and calculated values are kept separate. Missing fields are shown as unavailable.
The capacity and/or fuel fields on this page include a source-backed provenance label from GEM, an official registry, Wikidata, OSM, or a cross-source match.
capacity: GEM tracker 2026 operating-unit sum (location L100000103393); fuel: WRI source-record fuel
At 665 MW, Kharanorskaya is well above the median coal plant in Russia (340 MW). Technically it is described as subcritical. Coal plants burn pulverised coal to raise high-pressure steam for a turbine; they run as baseload but are the most carbon-intensive mainstream source and the first targeted for retirement or efficiency retrofits.
Capacity comparison computed from the WRI Global Power Plant Database; fuel-type context is general engineering background.
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 #26 largest coal power plant of 127 in Russia by capacity.
Russia has 127 coal power plants in this dataset, together about 64,498 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 50.8539, 115.7 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Kharanorskaya is a 665 MW source-record coal power plant in Transbaikal Territory, Russia, commissioned in 1995.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 832,200 homes (estimated).
Kharanorskaya is operated by JSC INTER RAO-Electric Power Generation.
