Akesu power station — China

Akesu power station is a 1,320 MW coal power station in Xinjiang, China. It ranks #673 of 6,685 China power plants by installed capacity. In context, coal supplies about 54.3% of China's electricity; the national grid averages 525 gCO₂/kWh (41.7% low-carbon) (2025).

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

Data provenance

Capacity and fuel are the upstream open-dataset record, not yet matched to a 2026 registry or GEM entry.

capacity: GEM GCPT; fuel: GEM GCPT

In context: how this plant compares

At 1,320 MW, Akesu power station is well above the median coal plant in China (700 MW). Technically it is described as ultra-supercritical. Its current lifecycle status is “Shelved” — 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 #500 largest coal power plant of 1907 in China by capacity.

China has 1907 coal power plants in this dataset, together about 1,882,493 MW of capacity.

Nearby power plants

• Aksu Xuzhou power station · Coal · 400 MW · Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu
• Aksu D · Solar · 10 MW · Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu
• Aksu C · Solar · 15 MW · Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu
• Aksu F · Solar · 20 MW · Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu
• Aksu B · Solar · 10 MW · Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu
• Aksu E · Solar · 40 MW · Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu

Location

Coordinates 41.094952, 80.118172 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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