Telmen Thermal Power Plant is a 100 MW coal power station in Zavkhan, Mongolia. It is operated by New Asia Group [100%]. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 125k homes (estimated). It ranks #17 of 25 Mongolia power plants by installed capacity. In context, coal supplies about 85.8% of Mongolia's electricity; the national grid averages 816 gCO₂/kWh (8.4% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id GEM_coa_telmenthermal_mongo.
Known, modelled and calculated values are kept separate. Missing fields are shown as unavailable.
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 100 MW, Telmen Thermal Power Plant is below the median coal plant in Mongolia (450 MW). 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 New Asia Group [100%].
This coal plant burns coal to raise high-pressure steam that spins a turbine-generator. It sits in a monsoon subarctic climate (Köppen Dwc) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 48.6°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 #17 largest coal power plant of 20 in Mongolia by capacity.
Mongolia has 20 coal power plants in this dataset, together about 12,669 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 48.642233, 97.609039 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Telmen Thermal Power Plant is a 100 MW coal power plant in Zavkhan, Mongolia.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 125,142 homes (estimated).
Telmen Thermal Power Plant is operated by New Asia Group [100%].
