Chuangyuan Smelter power station

Chuangyuan Smelter power station is a 990 MW coal power station in Inner Mongolia, China. It is operated by Inner Mongolia Chuangyuan Metal Co. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 1,238,914 homes (estimated). It ranks #619 of 5,959 China power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2017, it is around 9 years old — relatively modern. Its measured emissions of 8,918,400 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE) are equivalent to about 2,078,881 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 WRI1075592.

8,918,400 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 Inner Mongolia Chuangyuan Metal Co.

Local climate & thermal context

This coal plant burns coal to raise high-pressure steam that spins a turbine-generator. It sits in a monsoon warm-summer continental climate (Köppen Dwb) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 45.4°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 152% 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: 99/100 — 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 #485 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

• Jingneng Huolinhe Phase 2 · Wind · 30 MW · Inner Mongolia
• CPI Huolinhe power station · Coal · 1,200 MW · Inner Mongolia
• Jinyuankou Cogen power station · Coal · 150 MW · Inner Mongolia
• Huolinhe Zhanute power station · Coal · 2,380 MW · Inner Mongolia
• Inner Mongolia Tongliao Zhalute Qi Beishala Wind · Wind · 49 MW · Inner Mongolia
• Inner Mongolia Tongliao Zhalute Qi Phase 2 North Wind · Wind · 49 MW · Inner Mongolia

Location

Coordinates 45.4373, 119.4275 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.