Kurzeme power station is a 435 MW coal power station in Ventspils, Latvia. It is operated by Latvenergo AS [100%]. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 544k homes (estimated). It ranks #3 of 7 Latvia power plants by installed capacity. Its annual emissions of 1,614 t CO₂/yr (EU ETS verified (EUTL 2023)) are equivalent to about 376 cars driven for a year. In context, coal supplies about 0.0% of Latvia's electricity; the national grid averages 139 gCO₂/kWh (73.0% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id GEM_coa_kurzeme_latvi.
Known, modelled and calculated values are kept separate. Missing fields are shown as unavailable.
The capacity and fuel fields on this page are source-record values from the upstream open dataset. They are useful for identification and ranking, but they have not been upgraded to a 2026 registry/GEM-location verified value.
capacity: GEM GCPT; fuel: GEM GCPT
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.
This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:
Equivalencies via US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies; emissions per EU ETS verified (EUTL 2023) (measured for US EPA/EU ETS, modelled for Climate TRACE).
Operated by Latvenergo AS [100%].
This coal plant burns coal to raise high-pressure steam that spins a turbine-generator. It sits in a temperate oceanic climate (Köppen Cfb) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 57.4°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).
For a plant’s outdoor hardware — heat-recovery steam generators (HRSG), expansion joints, valves, flanges and their insulation — the local climate sets how fast unprotected steel and coatings degrade. This site sits in a corrosive environment (estimated ISO 9223 class C4 — High), with humidity / wetness the leading environmental stress.
Higher environmental severity is exactly where protective removable insulation pays back most: a sheltered micro-climate slows corrosion, UV and thermal-cycling damage and extends outdoor hardware service life. This is an indicative site-climate context — not a condition assessment of any specific plant or operator.
Indicative estimate via the ISO 9223:2012 informative method (atmospheric corrosivity from temperature, time-of-wetness and airborne salinity), using WorldClim climate normals, the Köppen-Geiger class and coast distance. Indicative, not a measured corrosion rate.
Latvia has 1 coal power plant in this dataset, together about 435 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 57.409408, 21.594695 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Kurzeme power station is a 435 MW coal power plant in Ventspils, Latvia.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 544,371 homes (estimated).
Kurzeme power station is operated by Latvenergo AS [100%].
Kurzeme power station has measured emissions of about 1,614 tonnes of CO₂ per year (EU ETS verified (EUTL 2023)).
