Sakhalin GRES-2 power station is a 360 MW coal power station in Sakhalin, Russia. It is operated by Sakhalinenergo PJSC [100%]. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 451k homes (estimated). It ranks #220 of 678 Russia power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2019, it is around 7 years old — recently built. 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 GEM_coa_sakhalingres2_russi.
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 120 MW for Sakhalin GRES-2 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 fuel fields on this page are source-record values from the upstream open dataset. They are useful for identification and ranking, but they have not been upgraded to a 2026 registry/GEM-location verified value.
capacity: GEM GCPT; fuel: GEM GCPT
At 360 MW, Sakhalin GRES-2 power station is around the median coal plant in Russia (340 MW). 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 Sakhalinenergo PJSC [100%].
This coal plant burns coal to raise high-pressure steam that spins a turbine-generator. It sits in a subarctic (boreal) climate (Köppen Dfc) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 48.1°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 #62 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 48.053759, 142.187548 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Sakhalin GRES-2 power station is a 360 MW coal power plant in Sakhalin, Russia, commissioned in 2019.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 450,514 homes (estimated).
Sakhalin GRES-2 power station is operated by Sakhalinenergo PJSC [100%].
