Gansu Qingyang power station — China

Gansu Qingyang power station is a 1,320 MW coal power station in Gansu, China. It ranks #692 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 GEM_coa_gansuqingyang_china.

Data provenance

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

capacity: GEM GCPT; fuel: GEM GCPT

In context: how this plant compares

At 1,320 MW, Gansu Qingyang power station is well above the median coal plant in China (700 MW). Technically it is described as supercritical. Its current lifecycle status is “Construction” — 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 #519 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

• Gansu Zhengning power station · Coal · 2,000 MW · Shaanxi
• Qingyang UHV Transmission power station · Coal · 6,000 MW · Gansu
• Chinalco Qingyang Zhengning Luochuan power station · Coal · 1,200 MW · Gansu
• Datang Binchang power station · Coal · 1,260 MW · Shaanxi
• Xinminyuan Low Heat Value power station · Coal · 660 MW · Shaanxi
• Huadian Yaochi Power station Unit 2 · Coal · 200 MW · Shaanxi

Location

Coordinates 35.414014, 108.026364 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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