Tabas power station is a 650 MW coal power station in Yazd, Iran. It is operated by Thermal Power Plants Holding Co [100%]. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 813k homes (estimated). It ranks #65 of 177 Iran power plants by installed capacity. In context, coal supplies about 0.2% of Iran's electricity; the national grid averages 660 gCO₂/kWh (5.7% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id GEM_coa_tabas_iran.
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: Wikidata P2109; fuel: GEM GCPT
Its current lifecycle status is “Construction” — so it is not yet, or no longer, generating at full output. 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.
Operated by Thermal Power Plants Holding Co [100%].
This coal plant burns coal to raise high-pressure steam that spins a turbine-generator. It sits in a hot desert climate (Köppen BWh) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 33.2°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).
Iran has 1 coal power plant in this dataset, together about 650 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 33.227766, 56.24132 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Tabas power station is a 650 MW coal power plant in Yazd, Iran, Construction 2029.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 813,428 homes (estimated).
Tabas power station is operated by Thermal Power Plants Holding Co [100%].
