Zaporozhye is a 6,000 MW nuclear power station in Zaporizhia, Ukraine. It is operated by Energoatom. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 13,515,428 homes (estimated). It ranks #1 of 64 Ukraine power plants by installed capacity. As a non-combustion source, it has no direct CO₂ emissions from generation. In context, nuclear supplies about 55.8% of Ukraine's electricity; the national grid averages 250 gCO₂/kWh (72.2% low-carbon) (2022).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1005114.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by Energoatom. All plants by this company →
This nuclear plant uses heat from nuclear fission to raise steam for a turbine-generator. It sits in a hot-summer humid continental climate (Köppen Dfa) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 47.5°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.
Monthly mean temperature
Heating degree-days here run 37% above the median power plant in this dataset — a proxy for how much extra energy heated equipment must replace through its surfaces in winter.
Climate heat-demand index: 73/100 — this site sits in the top third of the power plants we cover by heating degree-days.
In colder climates, uninsulated hot equipment (boilers, turbines, valves, steam lines) loses proportionally more heat to ambient air — exactly the loss Inzonex modular insulation is designed to cut.
Climate normals: WorldClim 2.1 (1970–2000 monthly normals, 10 arc-min, CC BY 4.0); zone: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid). Degree-days & heat-demand index computed by PowerAtlas — a modelled heat-demand proxy, not a measured site figure.
The #1 largest nuclear power plant of 4 in Ukraine by capacity.
Ukraine has 4 nuclear power plants in this dataset, together about 13,835 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 47.5119, 34.5863 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
