Gansu Baiyin (Sanfeng) power station is a 12 MW biomass power plant in Gansu Sheng, China. It is operated by Chongqing Sanfeng Environment Group Corp Ltd. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 16,518 homes (estimated). It ranks #5227 of 5,959 China power plants by installed capacity. In context, biomass supplies about 2.0% 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 CT-4000.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by Chongqing Sanfeng Environment Group Corp Ltd. All plants by this company →
This biomass plant burns organic material (wood, residues) to raise steam for a turbine. It sits in a cold semi-arid steppe climate (Köppen BSk) — 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 50% 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: 80/100 — 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 #863 largest biomass power plant of 981 in China by capacity.
China has 981 biomass power plants in this dataset, together about 29,906 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 36.551, 104.265 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
