Smolenskaya GRES is a 630 MW gas power station in Smolensk, Russia. It is operated by PJSC "Unipro". Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 709,560 homes (estimated). It ranks #88 of 545 Russia power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1970, it is around 56 years old — an older, legacy facility. In context, gas supplies about 44.7% 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 WRI1003814.
This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:
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.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by PJSC "Unipro". All plants by this company →
This gas plant burns natural gas in a turbine — often in a combined-cycle setup — to generate electricity. It sits in a warm-summer humid continental climate (Köppen Dfb) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 55.6°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 #43 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.
Coordinates 55.6056, 32.4139 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
