East Hope Metals Wucaiwan power station is a 7,000 MW coal power station in Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu, China. It is operated by Xinjiang East Hope Non-Ferrous Metal Co Ltd.. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 8,760,000 homes (estimated). It ranks #4 of 5,959 China power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2014, it is around 12 years old — relatively modern. Its measured emissions of 20,924,000 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE) are equivalent to about 4,877,389 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 WRI1075600.
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 Xinjiang East Hope Non-Ferrous Metal Co Ltd..
This coal plant burns coal to raise high-pressure steam that spins a turbine-generator. It sits in a cold desert climate (Köppen BWk) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 44.7°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 85% 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: 91/100 — 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 #1 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 44.6885, 89.1138 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
