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Feidong A

Solar power plant in Anhui Sheng, China. Approximate location 31.904, 117.618.

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Feidong A is a 35 MW solar power plant in Anhui Sheng, China. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 14,892 homes (estimated). It ranks #3464 of 5,959 China power plants by installed capacity. As a non-combustion source, it has no direct CO₂ emissions from generation. In context, solar supplies about 11.1% of China's electricity; the national grid averages 525 gCO₂/kWh (41.7% low-carbon) (2025).

35MW installed capacity
14,892homes powered (est.)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WKS0070379.

Capacity vs largest solar plants in China

Datong TopRunner: 1,000 MW1kDatong Top…Ili Kazakh I: 1,000 MW1kIli Kazakh…Yanchi: 1,000 MW1kYanchiToksun: 971 MW971ToksunHongshagang: 820 MW820HongshagangLongyangxia Solar-Hydro II: 530 MW530Longyangxi…Alashan 1p3: 500 MW500Alashan 1p3DhSP} CTGNE: 500 MW500DhSP} CTGNE

Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).

Local climate & thermal context

This solar plant converts sunlight directly into electricity with photovoltaic panels. It sits in a humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 31.9°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

15.8°Cannual mean temp
1,829heating degree-days (base 18°C)
1,052cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
24 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 3 °CJF: 5 °CFM: 9 °CMA: 16 °CAM: 21 °CMJ: 25 °CJJ: 28 °CJA: 28 °CAS: 23 °CSO: 18 °CON: 11 °CND: 5 °CD28 °C

Heating degree-days here run 26% 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: 40/100 — this site sits in the mid 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.

Solar PV loses ~0.35%/°C above 25°C cell temperature — roughly 1.0% at warm-season highs here (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.

How it compares & nearby plants

The #417 largest solar power plant of 1318 in China by capacity.

China has 1318 solar power plants in this dataset, together about 54,802 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 31.904, 117.618 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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