Novo-Zimanskaya is a 260 MW coal power station in Irkutsk, Russia. It is operated by PJSC "IRKUTSKENERGO". Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 325k homes (estimated). It ranks #269 of 678 Russia power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1973, it is around 53 years old — an older, legacy facility. 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 WRI1003768.
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 (location L100000104442); fuel: WRI source-record fuel
At 260 MW, Novo-Zimanskaya is below 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 PJSC "IRKUTSKENERGO". 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 54.0°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 #77 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 54.033, 102.0351 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Novo-Zimanskaya is a 260 MW source-record coal power plant in Irkutsk, Russia, commissioned in 1973.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 325,371 homes (estimated).
Novo-Zimanskaya is operated by PJSC "IRKUTSKENERGO".
