Tsimlyanskaya HPP is a 212 MW hydro power station in Rostov, Russia. It is operated by OOO "LUKOIL-Ecoenergo". Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 212k homes (estimated). It ranks #301 of 678 Russia power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1962, it is around 64 years old — an older, legacy facility. As a non-combustion source, it has no direct CO₂ emissions from generation. In context, hydro supplies about 16.7% 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 WRI1061869.
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 tracker 2026 (location L100000603280); fuel: WRI source-record fuel
At 212 MW, Tsimlyanskaya HPP is well above the median hydro plant in Russia (72 MW). Technically it is described as conventional storage. Hydropower converts the energy of falling or flowing water into electricity; output depends on rainfall and reservoir level, and large dams also provide grid balancing and storage.
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 OOO "LUKOIL-Ecoenergo".
This hydro plant converts the energy of falling or flowing water through hydro turbines. It sits in a hot-summer humid continental climate (Köppen Dfa) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 47.6°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 #29 largest hydro power plant of 105 in Russia by capacity.
Russia has 105 hydro power plants in this dataset, together about 45,810 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 47.6061, 42.1122 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Tsimlyanskaya HPP is a 212 MW source-record hydro power plant in Rostov, Russia, commissioned in 1962.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 211,741 homes (estimated).
Tsimlyanskaya HPP is operated by OOO "LUKOIL-Ecoenergo".
