A directory of 678 power plants in Russia with a combined installed capacity of 325,951 MW, mapped and ranked from open data — by fuel, capacity and emissions.
Plant counts by primary fuel, WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Source: Ember / Our World in Data (CC BY 4.0).
| # | Plant | Fuel | MW |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Surgutskaya GRES-2 | Gas | 8,865 |
| 2 | Krasnoyarsk | Hydro | 6,000 |
| 3 | CHP-23 | Gas | 5,690 |
| 4 | Perm GRES power station | Gas | 5,063 |
| 5 | Nizhny Novgorod nuclear power plant | Nuclear | 5,020 |
| 6 | Central/Kostroma nuclear power plant | Nuclear | 5,010 |
| 7 | Tver nuclear power plant | Nuclear | 4,800 |
| 8 | Bratsk HPP | Hydro | 4,500 |
| 9 | Bashkir nuclear power plant | Nuclear | 4,410 |
| 10 | Tatar nuclear power plant | Nuclear | 4,405 |
| 11 | Leningrad NPP | Nuclear | 4,376 |
| 12 | Rostov NPP | Nuclear | 4,071 |
| 13 | Balakovo NPP | Nuclear | 4,000 |
| 14 | Kalinn NPP | Nuclear | 4,000 |
| 15 | Kursk | Nuclear | 4,000 |
| 16 | Ust Illminsk (HPP) | Hydro | 3,840 |
| 17 | Reftinskaya GRES | Coal | 3,800 |
| 18 | Krostromskaya | Gas | 3,750 |
| 19 | South Urals nuclear power plant | Nuclear | 3,660 |
| 20 | Permskaya | Gas | 3,363 |
There are 678 power plants in Russia in this open dataset, with about 325,951 MW of total capacity.
Surgutskaya GRES-2 is the largest at about 8,865 MW (gas).
The most common plant type in this dataset is gas (338 plants), across 11 fuel types in total.
Russia's grid carbon intensity is about 450 gCO₂/kWh, with 35.7% low-carbon generation (<a href="https://ember-energy.org/" rel="nofollow">Ember</a> / <a href="https://ourworldindata.org/energy" rel="nofollow">Our World in Data</a> (CC BY 4.0)).
