Hohhot Jinshan cogen power station is a 5,840 MW coal power station in Inner Mongolia, China. It is operated by Inner Mongolia Energy Power Generation Investment Group Co Ltd Jinshan Thermal P. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 7.3 million homes (estimated). It ranks #42 of 6,685 China power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2010, it is around 16 years old — relatively modern. 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_hohhotjinshancogen_china.
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The public capacity above is the current source-record value. A 2026 tracker candidate lists 2,920 MW for Hohhot Jinshan cogen power station, but it is not used as the public primary value until scope is verified (unit vs operating vs installed/project total).
The capacity and/or fuel fields on this page include a source-backed provenance label from GEM, an official registry, Wikidata, OSM, or a cross-source match.
capacity: GEM · 2026 · L100000100861; fuel: GEM GCPT
At 5,840 MW, Hohhot Jinshan cogen power station is well above the median coal plant in China (700 MW). Technically it is described as ultra-supercritical. 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.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by Inner Mongolia Energy Power Generation Investment Group Co Ltd Jinshan Thermal P.
This coal plant burns coal to raise high-pressure steam that spins a turbine-generator. It sits in a cold semi-arid steppe climate (Köppen BSk) — 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 84% 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: 91/100 — this site sits in the top third of the power plants we cover by heating degree-days.
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.
For a plant’s outdoor hardware — heat-recovery steam generators (HRSG), expansion joints, valves, flanges and their insulation — the local climate sets how fast unprotected steel and coatings degrade. This site sits in a benign, low-corrosion environment (estimated ISO 9223 class C1 — Very low), with thermal cycling the leading environmental stress.
Higher environmental severity is exactly where protective removable insulation pays back most: a sheltered micro-climate slows corrosion, UV and thermal-cycling damage and extends outdoor hardware service life. This is an indicative site-climate context — not a condition assessment of any specific plant or operator.
Indicative estimate via the ISO 9223:2012 informative method (atmospheric corrosivity from temperature, time-of-wetness and airborne salinity), using WorldClim climate normals, the Köppen-Geiger class and coast distance. Indicative, not a measured corrosion rate.
The #11 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.
Coordinates 40.701963, 111.449515 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Hohhot Jinshan cogen power station is a 5,840 MW coal power plant in Inner Mongolia, China, commissioned in 2010.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 7,308,342 homes (estimated).
Hohhot Jinshan cogen power station is operated by Inner Mongolia Energy Power Generation Investment Group Co Ltd Jinshan Thermal P.
