Omsk CHP-5 power station is a 735 MW coal power station in Omsk, Russia. It is operated by Territorial Generating Company No 11 JSC [100%]. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 920k homes (estimated). It ranks #107 of 678 Russia power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1981, it is around 45 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 GEM_coa_omskchp5_russi.
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capacity: GEM · 2026 · L100000103369; fuel: GEM GCPT
At 735 MW, Omsk CHP-5 power station is well above 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 Territorial Generating Company No 11 JSC [100%].
This coal plant burns coal to raise high-pressure steam that spins a turbine-generator. It sits in a warm-summer humid continental climate (Köppen Dfb) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 55.0°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 #22 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 55.001843, 73.487412 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Omsk CHP-5 power station is a 735 MW coal power plant in Omsk, Russia, commissioned in 1981.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 919,800 homes (estimated).
Omsk CHP-5 power station is operated by Territorial Generating Company No 11 JSC [100%].
