Ust Illminsk (TPP) is a 525 MW coal power station in Irkutsk, Russia. It is operated by PJSC "IRKUTSKENERGO". Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 657,000 homes (estimated). It ranks #111 of 545 Russia power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1978, it is around 48 years old — long-established. 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 WRI1003847.
This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:
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.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by PJSC "IRKUTSKENERGO". All plants by this company →
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 58.0°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 #28 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.
Coordinates 58.0492, 102.8088 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
