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Thermal Power Station 11

Coal power plant in Irkutsk, Russia. Approximate location 56.1227, 101.5965.

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Thermal Power Station 11 is a 600 MW coal power station in Irkutsk, Russia. It is operated by Irkutskenergo. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 750,857 homes (estimated). It ranks #94 of 545 Russia power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1959, it is around 67 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).

600MW installed capacity
750,857homes powered (est.)
1959commissioned (~67 yrs)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1003827.

~2,628,000 t CO₂/yr (estimated) — in everyday terms

This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:

612,587passenger cars driven for a year
342,723homes' yearly energy use
43,800,000tree seedlings grown 10 years to absorb it

Estimated, not measured: from installed capacity at a typical 50% load factor × 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.

Capacity vs largest coal plants in Russia

Reftinskaya GRES: 3,800 MW4kReftinskay…Berezovskaya GRES: 2,400 MW2kBerezovska…Troitskaya GRES: 2,234 MW2kTroitskaya…Novocherkasskaya GRES: 2,214 MW2kNovocherka…Kashirskaya GRES: 1,910 MW2kKashirskay…Primorskaya TPP: 1,467 MW1kPrimorskay…CHP-22: 1,310 MW1kCHP-22Krasnoyarskaya GRES-2: 1,250 MW1kKrasnoyars…

Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).

Owner

Operated by Irkutskenergo. All plants by this company →

Climate zone & how it works

This coal plant burns coal to raise high-pressure steam that spins a turbine-generator. It sits in a subarctic (boreal) climate (Köppen Dfc) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 56.1°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

~0°Ctypical annual mean
~14°Ctypical warm-season mean
Subarctic (boreal): long cold winters and short, cool summers

Climate zone & typical temperatures: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid).

How it compares & nearby plants

The #21 largest coal power plant of 96 in Russia by capacity.

Russia has 96 coal power plants in this dataset, together about 46,072 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 56.1227, 101.5965 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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