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Petrozavodsk cogeneration station

Gas power plant in Republic of Karelia, Russia. Approximate location 61.8036, 34.2756.

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Petrozavodsk cogeneration station is a 280 MW gas power station in Republic of Karelia, Russia. It is operated by PJSC "TGC-1". Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 315,360 homes (estimated). It ranks #184 of 545 Russia power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1976, it is around 50 years old — long-established. In context, gas supplies about 44.7% of Russia's electricity; the national grid averages 450 gCO₂/kWh (35.7% low-carbon) (2025).

280MW installed capacity
315,360homes powered (est.)
1976commissioned (~50 yrs)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1061640.

~441,504 t CO₂/yr (estimated) — in everyday terms

This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:

102,915passenger cars driven for a year
57,577homes' yearly energy use
7,358,400tree seedlings grown 10 years to absorb it

Estimated, not measured: from installed capacity at a typical 45% load factor × a typical gas emission factor (~400 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 gas plants in Russia

Surgutskaya GRES-2: 8,865 MW9kSurgutskay…CHP-23: 5,690 MW6kCHP-23Krostromskaya: 3,600 MW4kKrostromsk…Permskaya: 3,363 MW3kPermskayaKirishskaya GRES: 2,595 MW3kKirishskay…Konakovskaya: 2,520 MW3kKonakovska…Iriklinskaya: 2,444 MW2kIriklinska…Stavropolskaya GRES: 2,415 MW2kStavropols…

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

Owner

Operated by PJSC "TGC-1". All plants by this company →

Climate zone & how it works

This gas plant burns natural gas in a turbine — often in a combined-cycle setup — to generate electricity. It sits in a subarctic (boreal) climate (Köppen Dfc) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 61.8°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

~0°Ctypical annual mean
~14°Ctypical warm-season mean
Subarctic (boreal): long cold winters and short, cool summers

Climate zone & typical temperatures: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid).

How it compares & nearby plants

The #96 largest gas power plant of 258 in Russia by capacity.

Russia has 258 gas power plants in this dataset, together about 106,722 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 61.8036, 34.2756 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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