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Guodian Baoji-2 power station

Coal power plant in Shaanxi, China. Approximate location 34.498, 107.2176.

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Guodian Baoji-2 power station is a 2,520 MW coal power station in Shaanxi, China. It is operated by China Guodian Group Corporation. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 3,153,600 homes (estimated). It ranks #103 of 5,959 China power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2006, it is around 20 years old — relatively modern. Its measured emissions of 11,363,300 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE) are equivalent to about 2,648,788 cars driven for a year. In context, coal supplies about 54.3% of China's electricity; the national grid averages 525 gCO₂/kWh (41.7% low-carbon) (2025).

2,520MW installed capacity
3,153,600homes powered (est.)
11,363,300t CO₂ / yr (Climate TRACE)
2006commissioned (~20 yrs)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1070786.

11,363,300 t CO₂/yr — in everyday terms

This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:

2,648,788passenger cars driven for a year
1,481,912homes' yearly energy use
189,388,333tree seedlings grown 10 years to absorb it

Equivalencies via US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies; emissions reported to Climate TRACE.

Capacity vs largest coal plants in China

East Hope Metals Wucaiwan power station: 7,000 MW7kEast Hope …Datang Tuoketuo power station: 6,720 MW7kDatang Tuo…Togtoh power station: 6,720 MW7kTogtoh pow…Waigaoqiao power station: 5,240 MW5kWaigaoqiao…Guodian Beilun power station: 5,060 MW5kGuodian Be…Guohua Taishan power station: 5,000 MW5kGuohua Tai…Jiaxing power station: 5,000 MW5kJiaxing po…CPI Pingwei power station: 4,540 MW5kCPI Pingwe…

Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).

Owner

Operated by China Guodian Group Corporation. All plants by this company →

Local climate & thermal context

This coal plant burns coal to raise high-pressure steam that spins a turbine-generator. It sits in a subtropical highland climate (Köppen Cwb) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 34.5°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

12.7°Cannual mean temp
2,500heating degree-days (base 18°C)
574cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
692 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 0 °CJF: 2 °CFM: 7 °CMA: 14 °CAM: 18 °CMJ: 23 °CJJ: 25 °CJA: 24 °CAS: 19 °CSO: 13 °CON: 6 °CND: 1 °CD25 °C

Heating degree-days here run 2% 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: 51/100 — 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.

How it compares & nearby plants

The #77 largest coal power plant of 1434 in China by capacity.

China has 1434 coal power plants in this dataset, together about 1,249,175 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 34.498, 107.2176 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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