Coal power plant in North Macedonia, North Macedonia. Approximate location 41.582133, 21.000288.
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Oslomej power station is a 254.5 MW coal power station in North Macedonia, North Macedonia. It is operated by Elektrani na Severna Makedonija AD [100%]. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 318k homes (estimated). It ranks #4 of 6 North Macedonia power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1980, it is around 46 years old — long-established.
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id GEM_coa_oslomej_north.
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 125 MW for Oslomej 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/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 · 2026 · L100000101867; 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.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by Elektrani na Severna Makedonija AD [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 41.6°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.
Monthly mean temperature
Heating degree-days here run 38% above the median power plant in this dataset — a proxy for how much extra energy heated equipment must replace through its surfaces in winter.
Climate heat-demand index: 73/100 — this site sits in the top third of the power plants we cover by heating degree-days.
Climate normals: WorldClim 2.1 (1970–2000 monthly normals, 10 arc-min, CC BY 4.0); zone: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid). Degree-days & heat-demand index computed by PowerAtlas — a modelled heat-demand proxy, not a measured site figure.
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 moderately corrosive environment (estimated ISO 9223 class C3 — Medium), 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.
The #2 largest coal power plant of 2 in North Macedonia by capacity.
North Macedonia has 2 coal power plants in this dataset, together about 554 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 41.582133, 21.000288 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Oslomej power station is a 254.5 MW coal power plant in North Macedonia, North Macedonia, commissioned in 1980.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 318,488 homes (estimated).
Oslomej power station is operated by Elektrani na Severna Makedonija AD [100%].
