Vortkuta HPP-1 is a 25 MW coal power plant in Komi Republic, Russia. It is operated by OOO Vorkuta Thermal Power Station. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 31,285 homes (estimated). It ranks #392 of 545 Russia power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1942, it is around 84 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 WRI1003855.
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 OOO Vorkuta Thermal Power Station. 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 67.5°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 #83 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 67.5, 64.0181 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
