Guadian Dam is a 2,400 MW hydro power station in Sichuan, China. It is operated by Ertan Hydropower Development Co. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 2,402,742 homes (estimated). It ranks #128 of 5,959 China power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2012, it is around 14 years old — relatively modern. As a non-combustion source, it has no direct CO₂ emissions from generation. In context, hydro supplies about 13.2% 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 WRI1070884.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by Ertan Hydropower Development Co. All plants by this company →
This hydro plant converts the energy of falling or flowing water through hydro turbines. It sits in a subtropical highland climate (Köppen Cwb) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 27.8°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 38% 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: 34/100 — 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.
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 #19 largest hydro power plant of 947 in China by capacity.
China has 947 hydro power plants in this dataset, together about 259,026 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 27.8221, 101.9025 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
