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Zuevskaya power station

Coal power plant in Donetsk, Ukraine. Approximate location 48.0332, 38.2887.

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Zuevskaya power station is a 1,290 MW coal power station in Donetsk, Ukraine. It is operated by DTEK. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 1,614,342 homes (estimated). It ranks #15 of 64 Ukraine power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1985, it is around 41 years old — long-established. In context, coal supplies about 20.9% of Ukraine's electricity; the national grid averages 250 gCO₂/kWh (72.2% low-carbon) (2022).

1,290MW installed capacity
1,614,342homes powered (est.)
1985commissioned (~41 yrs)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1005106.

~5,650,200 t CO₂/yr (estimated) — in everyday terms

This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:

1,317,063passenger cars driven for a year
736,854homes' yearly energy use
94,170,000tree seedlings grown 10 years to absorb it

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.

Capacity vs largest coal plants in Ukraine

Vuglegirska power station: 3,600 MW4kVuglegirsk…Zaporizhia power station: 2,825 MW3kZaporizhia…Zmiivska power station: 2,425 MW2kZmiivska p…Burshtyn power station: 2,334 MW2kBurshtyn p…Ladyzhyn power station: 1,800 MW2kLadyzhyn p…Trypilska: 1,800 MW2kTrypilskaStarobeshivska: 1,775 MW2kStarobeshi…Kryvorizka power station: 1,764 MW2kKryvorizka…

Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).

Owner

Operated by DTEK. All plants by this company →

Local climate & thermal context

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 48.0°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

8.9°Cannual mean temp
3,579heating degree-days (base 18°C)
295cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
139 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: -5 °CJF: -4 °CFM: 1 °CMA: 10 °CAM: 15 °CMJ: 20 °CJJ: 22 °CJA: 22 °CAS: 16 °CSO: 10 °CON: 2 °CND: -2 °CD22 °C

Heating degree-days here run 46% 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: 78/100 — 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.

How it compares & nearby plants

The #10 largest coal power plant of 21 in Ukraine by capacity.

Ukraine has 21 coal power plants in this dataset, together about 26,550 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 48.0332, 38.2887 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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