Reftinskaya GRES is a 3,800 MW coal power station in Sverdlovsk, Russia. It is operated by PJSC "Enel Russia". Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 4.8 million homes (estimated). It ranks #17 of 678 Russia power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1970, it is around 56 years old — an older, legacy facility. 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 WRI1003790.
Known, modelled and calculated values are kept separate. Missing fields are shown as unavailable.
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 tracker 2026 (location L100000103387); fuel: WRI source-record fuel
At 3,800 MW, Reftinskaya GRES is well above the median coal plant in Russia (340 MW). Technically it is described as supercritical. 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 PJSC "Enel Russia".
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 57.1°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 #1 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 57.1067, 61.7117 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Reftinskaya GRES is a 3,800 MW source-record coal power plant in Sverdlovsk, Russia, commissioned in 1970.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 4,755,428 homes (estimated).
Reftinskaya GRES is operated by PJSC "Enel Russia".
