Zmiivska power station — Ukraine

Zmiivska power station is a 2,200 MW coal power station in Kharkiv, Ukraine. It ranks #10 of 98 Ukraine power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1965, it is around 61 years old — an older, legacy facility. In context, coal supplies about 20.9% 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 WRI1005103.

Data provenance

Source of the capacity and fuel values:

capacity: Wikidata P2109; fuel: WRI GPPD

In context: how this plant compares

At 2,200 MW, Zmiivska power station is well above the median coal plant in Ukraine (1,210 MW). Technically it is described as subcritical. Its current lifecycle status is “Mothballed” — 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 #4 largest coal power plant of 22 in Ukraine by capacity.

Ukraine has 22 coal power plants in this dataset, together about 26,630 MW of capacity.

Nearby power plants

• Kharkiv nuclear power plant · Nuclear · 2,000 MW · Kharkiv
• Karkov CHP-5 · Gas · 540 MW · Kharkiv
• GT-TPP (gas turbine TPP) "Luch" · Gas · 60 MW · Belgorod
• Belgorod TPP (thermal power plant) · Gas · 60 MW · Belgorod
• GT CHP Michurinskaya · Gas · 36 MW · Belgorod
• Slavyansk power station · Coal · 600 MW · Donetsk

Location

Coordinates 49.5853, 36.5236 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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