Norilsk TPP-3 is a 440 MW coal power station in Krasnoyarskiy, Russia. It is operated by JSC Norilsk-Taimyr Energy Company (JSC NTEK). Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 551k homes (estimated). It ranks #185 of 678 Russia power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1978, it is around 48 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 WRI1061842.
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: WRI Global Power Plant Database source-record (legacy); fuel: WRI source-record fuel
At 440 MW, Norilsk TPP-3 is well above the median coal plant in Russia (340 MW). 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 Norilsk-Taimyr Energy Company (JSC NTEK).
This coal plant burns coal to raise high-pressure steam that spins a turbine-generator. It sits in a subarctic (boreal) climate (Köppen Dfc) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 69.3°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 #50 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 69.323, 87.951 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Norilsk TPP-3 is a 440 MW source-record coal power plant in Krasnoyarskiy, Russia, commissioned in 1978.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 550,628 homes (estimated).
Norilsk TPP-3 is operated by JSC Norilsk-Taimyr Energy Company (JSC NTEK).
