Baotou East Hope power station

Baotou East Hope power station is a 1,320 MW coal power station in Inner Mongolia, China. It is operated by Baotou Rare Earth & Aluminum Co Ltd. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 1,651,885 homes (estimated). It ranks #315 of 5,959 China power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2003, it is around 23 years old — relatively modern. Its measured emissions of 6,074,300 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE) are equivalent to about 1,415,921 cars driven for a year. 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 WRI1070043.

6,074,300 t CO₂/yr — in everyday terms

This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:

Equivalencies via US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies; emissions reported to Climate TRACE.

Capacity vs largest coal plants in China

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

Owner

Operated by Baotou Rare Earth & Aluminum Co Ltd.

Local climate & thermal context

This coal plant burns coal to raise high-pressure steam that spins a turbine-generator. It sits in a cold semi-arid steppe climate (Köppen BSk) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 40.6°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

Monthly mean temperature

Heating degree-days here run 82% 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: 90/100 — 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 #238 largest coal power plant of 1434 in China by capacity.

China has 1434 coal power plants in this dataset, together about 1,249,175 MW of capacity.

Nearby power plants

• Baotou Hexi power station · Coal · 1,200 MW · Inner Mongolia
• Inner Mongolia Baotou power station · Biomass · 36 MW · Inner Mongolia
• Baotou Works power station · Coal · 200 MW · Inner Mongolia
• Baotou Sanfeng power station · Coal · 100 MW · Inner Mongolia
• Baotou Olefins power station · Coal · 600 MW · Inner Mongolia
• Huaneng Baotou-1 power station · Coal · 950 MW · Inner Mongolia

Location

Coordinates 40.5956, 109.7828 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.