Southern Kuzbass Power Plant is a 554 MW coal power station in Kemerovo, Russia. It is operated by OAO "Yuzhno-Kuzbasskaya GRES". Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 693k homes (estimated). It ranks #145 of 678 Russia power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1951, it is around 75 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 WRI1061850.
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capacity: GEM tracker 2026 (location L100000103335); fuel: WRI source-record fuel
At 554 MW, Southern Kuzbass Power Plant is well above 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 OAO "Yuzhno-Kuzbasskaya GRES".
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 53.5°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 #38 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 53.5119, 87.2669 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Southern Kuzbass Power Plant is a 554 MW source-record coal power plant in Kemerovo, Russia, commissioned in 1951.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 693,291 homes (estimated).
Southern Kuzbass Power Plant is operated by OAO "Yuzhno-Kuzbasskaya GRES".
