Varnenskaya power station is a 77.4 MW gas power plant in Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia. It is operated by Kapital-Siti LLC [100%]. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 87k homes (estimated). It ranks #421 of 678 Russia power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2018, it is around 8 years old — recently built. 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 GOGPT_varnenskaya_russia.
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 · L100000408436; fuel: GEM GOGPT
At 77.4 MW, Varnenskaya power station is below the median gas plant in Russia (200 MW). Technically it is described as Engine. 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 Kapital-Siti LLC [100%].
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 53.2°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 #235 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 53.226276, 60.944767 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Varnenskaya power station is a 77.4 MW gas power plant in Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia, commissioned in 2018.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 87,174 homes (estimated).
Varnenskaya power station is operated by Kapital-Siti LLC [100%].
