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Pavlodar TPP-1

Coal power plant in Pavlodar, Kazakhstan. Approximate location 52.367, 76.9338.

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Pavlodar TPP-1 is a 855 MW coal power station in Pavlodar, Kazakhstan. It is operated by Aluminum of Kazakhstan. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 1,069,971 homes (estimated). It ranks #6 of 33 Kazakhstan power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1959, it is around 67 years old — an older, legacy facility. In context, coal supplies about 54.3% of Kazakhstan's electricity; the national grid averages 805 gCO₂/kWh (14.9% low-carbon) (2025).

855MW installed capacity
1,069,971homes powered (est.)
1959commissioned (~67 yrs)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1000293.

~3,744,900 t CO₂/yr (estimated) — in everyday terms

This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:

872,937passenger cars driven for a year
488,380homes' yearly energy use
62,415,000tree seedlings grown 10 years to absorb it

Estimated, not measured: from installed capacity at a typical 50% load factor × a typical coal emission factor (~1000 g CO₂/kWh, IPCC AR5 / US EIA). Actual emissions depend on plant efficiency and running hours.Equivalencies via US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies.

Capacity vs largest coal plants in Kazakhstan

Ekibastuz-1 power station: 4,000 MW4kEkibastuz-…Aksu power station: 2,450 MW2kAksu power…MAEK-Kazatoprom TPP-2: 1,255 MW1kMAEK-Kazat…OJSC Zhambyl GRES: 1,230 MW1kOJSC Zhamb…Ekibastuz-2 power station: 1,000 MW1kEkibastuz-…Pavlodar TPP-1: 855 MW855Pavlodar T…Karaganda GRES-2: 608 MW608Karaganda …Karaganda TPS-3 power station: 590 MW590Karaganda …

Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).

Owner

Operated by Aluminum of Kazakhstan.

Local climate & thermal context

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 52.4°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

2.9°Cannual mean temp
5,687heating degree-days (base 18°C)
196cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
132 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: -16 °CJF: -16 °CFM: -9 °CMA: 6 °CAM: 14 °CMJ: 20 °CJJ: 22 °CJA: 19 °CAS: 12 °CSO: 4 °CON: -7 °CND: -13 °CD22 °C

Heating degree-days here run 131% 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: 97/100 — this site sits in the top third of the power plants we cover by heating degree-days.

In colder climates, uninsulated hot equipment (boilers, turbines, valves, steam lines) loses proportionally more heat to ambient air — exactly the loss Inzonex modular insulation is designed to cut.

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.

How it compares & nearby plants

The #6 largest coal power plant of 22 in Kazakhstan by capacity.

Kazakhstan has 22 coal power plants in this dataset, together about 15,868 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 52.367, 76.9338 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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