Yuzhnouralskaya GRES power station is a 747 MW coal power station in Chelyabinsk, Russia. It is operated by Kashirskaya GRES LLC [100%]. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 935k homes (estimated). It ranks #105 of 678 Russia power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1959, it is around 67 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 GEM_coa_yuzhnouralskayagres_russi.
Known, modelled and calculated values are kept separate. Missing fields are shown as unavailable.
The public capacity above is the current source-record value. A 2026 tracker candidate lists 347 MW for Yuzhnouralskaya GRES power station, but it is not used as the public primary value until scope is verified (unit vs operating vs installed/project total).
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 · L100000103318; fuel: GEM GCPT
At 747 MW, Yuzhnouralskaya GRES power station is well above the median coal plant in Russia (340 MW). Technically it is described as subcritical. 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.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by Kashirskaya GRES LLC [100%].
This coal plant burns coal to raise high-pressure steam that spins a turbine-generator. It sits in a warm-summer humid continental climate (Köppen Dfb) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 54.5°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 #21 largest coal power plant of 127 in Russia by capacity.
Russia has 127 coal power plants in this dataset, together about 64,498 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 54.455171, 61.235905 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Yuzhnouralskaya GRES power station is a 747 MW coal power plant in Chelyabinsk, Russia, commissioned in 1959.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 934,817 homes (estimated).
Yuzhnouralskaya GRES power station is operated by Kashirskaya GRES LLC [100%].
