Pleshanovskaya SES is a 10 MW solar power plant in Orenburg, Russia. It is operated by PJSC "Fortum". Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 4,254 homes (estimated). It ranks #498 of 545 Russia power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2016, it is around 10 years old — relatively modern. As a non-combustion source, it has no direct CO₂ emissions from generation. In context, solar supplies about 0.2% 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 WRI1062168.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by PJSC "Fortum". All plants by this company →
This solar plant converts sunlight directly into electricity with photovoltaic panels. It sits in a warm-summer humid continental climate (Köppen Dfb) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 52.8°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 #39 largest solar power plant of 57 in Russia by capacity.
Russia has 57 solar power plants in this dataset, together about 841 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 52.8265, 53.4687 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
