Guangshen power station — China

Guangshen power station is a 2,000 MW coal power station in Guangdong, China. It ranks #350 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_guangshen_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 2,000 MW, Guangshen power station is well above the median coal plant in China (700 MW). Technically it is described as ultra-supercritical. Its current lifecycle status is “Announced” — 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 #242 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

• Dongguan Humen Gas power station · Gas · 300 MW · Guangdong
• Dongguan Ningzhou Gas power station · Gas · 2,484 MW · Guangdong
• Guangdong Shajiao power complex · Coal · 3,970 MW · Guangdong
• Guangdong Dongguan Houjie power station · Biomass · 54 MW · Guangdong
• Guangzhou Zhujiang · Gas · 700 MW · Guangdong
• Guangzhou Zhujiang power station · Coal · 1,280 MW · Guangdong

Location

Coordinates 22.808555, 113.66845 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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