Gansu Wind Farm is a 6,000 MW wind power station in Gansu Sheng, China. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 5,105,828 homes (estimated). It ranks #9 of 5,959 China power plants by installed capacity. As a non-combustion source, it has no direct CO₂ emissions from generation. In context, wind supplies about 10.7% 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 WRI1023878.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
This wind plant converts the kinetic energy of wind into electricity through turbine rotors. It sits in a cold desert climate (Köppen BWk) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 40.7°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 52% 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: 81/100 — 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 wind power plant of 835 in China by capacity.
China has 835 wind power plants in this dataset, together about 50,990 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 40.6876, 95.7329 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
