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Power plants in continental climate zones

This open dataset places 8,430 power plants in continental Köppen-Geiger climate zones, totalling about 1,897,011 MW of capacity. Across the 708 with an asset-level CO₂ figure, emissions reach about 1,095 Mt CO₂/yr, at a median intensity of about 1,502 t CO₂ per MW of combustion capacity. The most common plant type in this zone is hydro.

8,430power plants
1,897,011MW capacity
708with CO₂ data
1,502median t CO₂ / MW

Plant types in continental zones

Hydro: 2,098 plants2kHydroSolar: 1,391 plants1kSolarGas: 1,291 plants1kGasWind: 1,213 plants1kWindCoal: 1,070 plants1kCoalOil: 494 plants494OilBiomass: 410 plants410BiomassWaste: 187 plants187Waste

Climate class: Köppen-Geiger (WorldClim). Backbone WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).

Largest emitters (Mt CO₂/yr)

Huadian Laizhou power station: 18.5 Mt CO2/yr18.5Huadian La…Suizhong power station: 17.0 Mt CO2/yr17.0Suizhong p…Tianjin Beijiang power station: 16.8 Mt CO2/yr16.8Tianjin Be…Huaneng Shangdu power station: 16.4 Mt CO2/yr16.4Huaneng Sh…Huaneng Yimin power station: 15.8 Mt CO2/yr15.8Huaneng Yi…Monroe (MI): 11.4 Mt CO2/yr11.4Monroe (MI)Daihai power station: 11.1 Mt CO2/yr11.1Daihai pow…Zhangze Changzhi power station: 10.9 Mt CO2/yr10.9Zhangze Ch…Dingzhou power station: 10.9 Mt CO2/yr10.9Dingzhou p…CPI Shentou power station: 10.8 Mt CO2/yr10.8CPI Shento…

CO₂ — measured (US EPA / EU ETS) or modelled (Climate TRACE), per source.

Largest plants in continental zones

#PlantFuelCountryMW
1Afşin-Elbistan power stationsCoalTürkiye9,283
2Surgutskaya GRES-2GasRussia8,865
3Xudapu nuclear power plantNuclearChina7,548
4Haixing nuclear power plantNuclearChina7,500
5Zhaoyuan nuclear power plantNuclearChina6,900
6Zhuanghe nuclear power plantNuclearChina6,900
7KrasnoyarskHydroRussia6,000
8ZaporozhyeNuclearUkraine6,000
9Qingyang UHV Transmission power stationCoalChina6,000
10Chernobyl nuclear power plantNuclearUkraine5,800
11CHP-23GasRussia5,690
12Robert-BourassaHydroCanada5,616
13Churchill FallsHydroCanada5,428
14Huaneng Xilinguole Wulagai power stationCoalChina5,200
15Perm GRES power stationGasRussia5,063

Cite this

Inzonex PowerAtlas (2026). Power plants by Köppen climate zone — Continental. Derived from WRI GPPD, Climate TRACE and Köppen-Geiger/WorldClim (CC BY 4.0). https://inzonex.co.uk/poweratlas/climate/continental/

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