Oil power plant in Negotino, North Macedonia. Approximate location 41.483333, 22.1.
OilNegotinoNorth MacedoniaSteam
Negotino power station is a 998 MW oil power station in Negotino, North Macedonia. It is operated by Elektrani na Severna Makedonija AD; TEC Negotino JSC [100%]. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 749k homes (estimated). It ranks #1 of 6 North Macedonia power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1978, it is around 48 years old — long-established.
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id GOGPT_negotino_northm.
Known, modelled and calculated values are kept separate. Missing fields are shown as unavailable.
The public capacity above is the current source-record value. A 2026 tracker candidate lists 198 MW for Negotino power station, but it is not used as the public primary value until scope is verified (unit vs operating vs installed/project total).
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 GOGPT; fuel: GEM GOGPT
Technically it is described as Steam. Oil-fired plants burn heavy fuel oil or diesel, usually as peaking or backup capacity on islands and grids without gas pipelines; high fuel cost keeps their utilisation low.
Capacity comparison computed from the WRI Global Power Plant Database; fuel-type context is general engineering background.
Operated by Elektrani na Severna Makedonija AD; TEC Negotino JSC [100%].
This oil plant burns oil or diesel to drive turbines or reciprocating engines. It sits in a temperate oceanic climate (Köppen Cfb) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 41.5°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).
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 mild atmospheric environment (estimated ISO 9223 class C2 — Low), 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.
North Macedonia has 1 oil power plant in this dataset, together about 998 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 41.483333, 22.1 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Negotino power station is a 998 MW oil power plant in Negotino, North Macedonia, commissioned in 1978.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 749,355 homes (estimated).
Negotino power station is operated by Elektrani na Severna Makedonija AD; TEC Negotino JSC [100%].
