Tom-Usinskaya power station is a 2,005 MW coal power station in Kemerovo, Russia. It is operated by Kuzbassenergo JSC [100%]. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 2.5 million homes (estimated). It ranks #41 of 678 Russia power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1958, it is around 68 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 GEM_coa_tomusinskaya_russi.
Known, modelled and calculated values are kept separate. Missing fields are shown as unavailable.
The public capacity above is the current source-record value. A 2026 tracker candidate lists 1,345 MW for Tom-Usinskaya power station, but it is not used as the public primary value until scope is verified (unit vs operating vs installed/project total).
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 2,005 MW, Tom-Usinskaya power station 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 Kuzbassenergo JSC [100%].
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 53.8°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 #6 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 53.781415, 87.587401 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Tom-Usinskaya power station is a 2,005 MW coal power plant in Kemerovo, Russia, commissioned in 1958.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 2,509,114 homes (estimated).
Tom-Usinskaya power station is operated by Kuzbassenergo JSC [100%].
