Krostromskaya is a 3,750 MW gas power station in Kostroma, Russia. It is operated by Inter RAO. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 4.2 million homes (estimated). It ranks #18 of 678 Russia power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1969, it is around 57 years old — an older, legacy facility. In context, gas supplies about 44.7% 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 WRI1003742.
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 L100000407221); fuel: WRI source-record fuel
At 3,750 MW, Krostromskaya is well above the median gas plant in Russia (200 MW). Technically it is described as Steam. Gas plants burn natural gas either in open-cycle turbines for fast peaking, or in combined-cycle units that recover exhaust heat in an HRSG to reach roughly 55–62% efficiency — the cleanest-burning fossil option.
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 Inter RAO. All plants by this company →
This gas plant burns natural gas in a turbine — often in a combined-cycle setup — to generate electricity. It sits in a warm-summer humid continental climate (Köppen Dfb) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 57.5°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 #4 largest gas power plant of 338 in Russia by capacity.
Russia has 338 gas power plants in this dataset, together about 145,594 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 57.4596, 41.1741 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Krostromskaya is a 3,750 MW source-record gas power plant in Kostroma, Russia, commissioned in 1969.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 4,223,571 homes (estimated).
Krostromskaya is operated by Inter RAO.
