Dongtang Plant power station — China

Dongtang Plant power station is a 285 MW coal power station in Guangdong, China. It ranks #1930 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 WRI1075597.

Data provenance

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

capacity: WRI GPPD; fuel: WRI GPPD

In context: how this plant compares

At 285 MW, Dongtang Plant power station is below the median coal plant in China (700 MW). Technically it is described as subcritical. Its current lifecycle status is “Announced” — 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 #1388 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

• Dongguan Jintian Paper Mill power station · Coal · 42 MW · Guangdong
• Dongguan Zhongtang Gas Thermal power station · Gas · 1,720 MW · Guangdong
• Guangzhou Zengcheng Wanglong Gas Thermal power station · Gas · 920 MW · Guangdong
• Guangzhou Wanglong Cogen power station · Coal · 200 MW · Guangdong
• Guangzhou Lixin power station · Coal · 660 MW · Guangdong
• Guangdong Machong power station · Biomass · 36 MW · Guangdong

Location

Coordinates 23.08, 113.6292 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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