CKI Lamma power station is a 3,260 MW gas power station in Hong Kong, Hong Kong. It is operated by Hong Kong Electric Co Ltd [100%]. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 3.7 million homes (estimated). It ranks #3 of 4 Hong Kong power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1991, it is around 35 years old — long-established.
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id GOGPT_ckilamma_hongko.
Known, modelled and calculated values are kept separate. Missing fields are shown as unavailable.
The public capacity above is the current source-record value. A 2026 tracker candidate lists 1,995 MW for CKI Lamma power station, but it is not used as the public primary value until scope is verified (unit vs operating vs installed/project total).
Capacity claim grade: B_SCOPE_PARENT_COMPLEX - recommended action: build_parent_complex_model - confidence: not_comparable_without_scope. This follows a claim-based data model: value + scope + source + confidence, rather than silently overwriting records.
The capacity and fuel fields on this page are source-record values from the upstream open dataset. They are useful for identification and ranking, but they have not been upgraded to a 2026 registry/GEM-location verified value.
capacity: GEM-GOGPT source-record capacity (not GEM location-aggregated); fuel: GEM-GOGPT source-record fuel
Technically it is described as CCGT; combined-cycle with a heat-recovery steam generator (HRSG); Mitsubishi Heavy Industries: M701F. Gas plants burn natural gas either in open-cycle turbines for fast peaking, or in combined-cycle units that recover exhaust heat in an HRSG to reach roughly 55–62% efficiency — the cleanest-burning fossil option.
Capacity comparison computed from the WRI Global Power Plant Database; fuel-type context is general engineering background.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by Hong Kong Electric Co Ltd [100%].
This gas plant burns natural gas in a turbine — often in a combined-cycle setup — to generate electricity. It sits in a humid subtropical (dry winter) climate (Köppen Cwa) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 22.2°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 92% below 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: 16/100 — this site sits in the bottom third of the power plants we cover by heating degree-days.
A gas turbine here also runs ~5% below its ISO (15°C) rating at this annual mean (typical CCGT curve, estimate).
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.
For a plant’s outdoor hardware — heat-recovery steam generators (HRSG), expansion joints, valves, flanges and their insulation — the local climate sets how fast unprotected steel and coatings degrade. This site sits in an aggressive, high-corrosion environment (estimated ISO 9223 class C5 — Very high), with marine salt corrosion the leading environmental stress.
Higher environmental severity is exactly where protective removable insulation pays back most: a sheltered micro-climate slows corrosion, UV and thermal-cycling damage and extends outdoor hardware service life. This is an indicative site-climate context — not a condition assessment of any specific plant or operator.
Indicative estimate via the ISO 9223:2012 informative method (atmospheric corrosivity from temperature, time-of-wetness and airborne salinity), using WorldClim climate normals, the Köppen-Geiger class and coast distance. Indicative, not a measured corrosion rate.
The #2 largest gas power plant of 2 in Hong Kong by capacity.
Hong Kong has 2 gas power plants in this dataset, together about 7,060 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 22.2188909, 114.1082183 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
CKI Lamma power station is a 3,260 MW source-record gas power plant in Hong Kong, Hong Kong, commissioned in 1991.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 3,671,691 homes (estimated).
CKI Lamma power station is operated by Hong Kong Electric Co Ltd [100%].
