Home / Europe / Poland / Siersza

Siersza

Coal power plant in Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland. Approximate location 50.2083, 19.4617.

CoalLesser Poland VoivodeshipPoland

Siersza is a 546 MW coal power station in Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland. It is operated by TAURON Wytwarzanie S.A.. Based on reported annual generation of 1,476 GWh, it can supply roughly 421,657 homes. It ranks #18 of 197 Poland power plants by installed capacity. In context, coal supplies about 50.4% of Poland's electricity; the national grid averages 589 gCO₂/kWh (31.5% low-carbon) (2025).

546MW installed capacity
1,476GWh reported / yr
421,657homes powered

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1019044.

~1,475,800 t CO₂/yr (estimated) — in everyday terms

This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:

344,009passenger cars driven for a year
192,462homes' yearly energy use
24,596,667tree seedlings grown 10 years to absorb it

Estimated, not measured: from reported annual generation × 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.

Reported generation trend

2015: 1,602 GWh20152016: 1,574 GWh20162017: 1,476 GWh20172k GWh

Annual generation (GWh), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).

Owner

Operated by TAURON Wytwarzanie S.A.. All plants by this company →

Local climate & thermal context

This coal plant burns coal to raise high-pressure steam that spins a turbine-generator. It sits in a temperate oceanic climate (Köppen Cfb) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 50.2°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

8.2°Cannual mean temp
3,556heating degree-days (base 18°C)
0cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
292 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: -2 °CJF: -1 °CFM: 3 °CMA: 8 °CAM: 13 °CMJ: 16 °CJJ: 18 °CJA: 18 °CAS: 13 °CSO: 9 °CON: 3 °CND: 0 °CD18 °C

Heating degree-days here run 45% 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: 77/100 — 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 #16 largest coal power plant of 75 in Poland by capacity.

Poland has 75 coal power plants in this dataset, together about 31,540 MW of capacity.

Nearby power plants

Location

Coordinates 50.2083, 19.4617 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

Built from open public data; no personal information. Operate this site? Request a correction or removal.