Thermal Power Station Akademicheskaya is a 228.4 MW gas power station in Sverdlovsk, Russia. It is operated by Sverdlovsk Branch of PJSC "T Plus". Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 257k homes (estimated). It ranks #290 of 678 Russia power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2014, it is around 12 years old — relatively modern. 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 WRI1061894.
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: GEM · 2026 · L100000407164; fuel: WRI GPPD
At 228.4 MW, Thermal Power Station Akademicheskaya is well above the median gas plant in Russia (200 MW). Technically it is described as CCGT; combined-cycle with a heat-recovery steam generator (HRSG). Gas plants burn natural gas either in open-cycle turbines for fast peaking, or in combined-cycle units that recover exhaust heat in an HRSG to reach roughly 55–62% efficiency — the cleanest-burning fossil option.
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 Sverdlovsk Branch of PJSC "T Plus".
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 56.8°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 #160 largest gas power plant of 338 in Russia by capacity.
Russia has 338 gas power plants in this dataset, together about 145,594 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 56.7709, 60.5533 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Thermal Power Station Akademicheskaya is a 228.4 MW gas power plant in Sverdlovsk, Russia, commissioned in 2014.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 257,243 homes (estimated).
Thermal Power Station Akademicheskaya is operated by Sverdlovsk Branch of PJSC "T Plus".
