Plant counts by primary fuel, WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Source: Ember / Our World in Data (CC BY 4.0).
Across the 1,009 China power plants carrying an asset-level CO₂ figure in this open dataset, total emissions are about 4,010 Mt CO₂/yr. The single largest emitter, Togtoh power station (coal), accounts for about 1% of that 1,009-plant reported subset (not of the whole country). The top three owners — China Huaneng Group Corporation (CHNG), China Guodian Group Corporation, Huadian Power International Company Limited — control roughly 14% of that 1,009-plant reported subset. Most of these plants sit in a temperate Köppen climate zone.
CO₂ — measured (US EPA / EU ETS) or modelled (Climate TRACE), per plant · backbone WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0) · climate: Köppen-Geiger (WorldClim). CC BY 4.0.
| # | Plant | Fuel | MW |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Three Gorges Dam | Hydro | 22,500 |
| 2 | Xiluodu | Hydro | 13,860 |
| 3 | Baihetan Dam | Hydro | 13,050 |
| 4 | Shidao Bay nuclear power plant | Nuclear | 8,279 |
| 5 | Bailong nuclear power plant | Nuclear | 8,100 |
| 6 | Xiangjiaba | Hydro | 7,750 |
| 7 | Xudapu nuclear power plant | Nuclear | 7,548 |
| 8 | Haiyang nuclear power plant | Nuclear | 7,506 |
| 9 | Haixing nuclear power plant | Nuclear | 7,500 |
| 10 | Lianjiang nuclear power plant | Nuclear | 7,500 |
| 11 | Nanyang nuclear power plant | Nuclear | 7,500 |
| 12 | Xiaomoshan nuclear power plant | Nuclear | 7,500 |
| 13 | Sanmen nuclear power plant | Nuclear | 7,404 |
| 14 | Lufeng nuclear power plant | Nuclear | 7,400 |
| 15 | Jinqimen nuclear power plant | Nuclear | 7,200 |
| 16 | Zhangzhou nuclear power plant | Nuclear | 7,024 |
| 17 | Cangnan San'ao nuclear power plant | Nuclear | 7,020 |
| 18 | East Hope Metals Wucaiwan power station | Coal | 7,000 |
| 19 | Jieyang nuclear power plant | Nuclear | 7,000 |
| 20 | Taipingling nuclear power plant | Nuclear | 7,000 |
Inzonex PowerAtlas (2026). Asset-level power-plant CO2 emissions — China. Derived from WRI GPPD, Climate TRACE, US EPA GHGRP and EU ETS (CC BY 4.0). https://inzonex.co.uk/poweratlas/china/
There are 6,685 power plants in China in this open dataset, with about 2,957,978 MW of total capacity.
Three Gorges Dam is the largest at about 22,500 MW (hydro).
The most common plant type in this dataset is coal (1907 plants), across 11 fuel types in total.
China's grid carbon intensity is about 525 gCO₂/kWh, with 41.7% 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)).
Power plants in China