Ust-Kamenogorsk-2 power station — Kazakhstan

Ust-Kamenogorsk-2 power station is a 360 MW coal power station in East Kazakhstan, Kazakhstan. It ranks #40 of 80 Kazakhstan power plants by installed capacity. In context, coal supplies about 54.3% of Kazakhstan's electricity; the national grid averages 805 gCO₂/kWh (14.9% low-carbon) (2025).

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id GEM_coa_ustkamenogorsk2_kazak.

Data provenance

Capacity and fuel are the upstream open-dataset record, not yet matched to a 2026 registry or GEM entry.

capacity: GEM GCPT; fuel: GEM GCPT

In context: how this plant compares

At 360 MW, Ust-Kamenogorsk-2 power station is below the median coal plant in Kazakhstan (435 MW). Its current lifecycle status is “Announced” — so it is not yet, or no longer, generating at full output. 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.

How it compares & nearby plants

The #20 largest coal power plant of 32 in Kazakhstan by capacity.

Kazakhstan has 32 coal power plants in this dataset, together about 20,941 MW of capacity.

Nearby power plants

• Ust-Kamenogorsk TETS power station · Coal · 308 MW · East Kazakhstan
• Ust-Kamenogorsk HPP · Hydro · 331 MW · East Kazakhstan
• Sogrinsk · Coal · 75 MW · East Kazakhstan
• JSC Bukhtarminskaya · Hydro · 675 MW · East Kazakhstan
• Ridder · Coal · 59 MW · East Kazakhstan

Location

Coordinates 49.907854, 82.601281 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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