CPI Xining power station is a 1,320 MW coal power station in Qinghai Sheng, China. It is operated by CPI Henan Electric Power Co Ltd. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 1,651,885 homes (estimated). It ranks #321 of 5,959 China power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2015, it is around 11 years old — relatively modern. Its measured emissions of 5,558,100 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE) are equivalent to about 1,295,594 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 WRI1070484.
This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:
Equivalencies via US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies; emissions reported to Climate TRACE.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by CPI Henan Electric Power Co Ltd. All plants by this company →
This coal plant burns coal to raise high-pressure steam that spins a turbine-generator. It sits in a monsoon subarctic climate (Köppen Dwc) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 36.6°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 100% 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: 94/100 — 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.
The #244 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.
Coordinates 36.5847, 101.4936 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
