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Huadian Zengcheng Gas Thermal power station

Other power plant in Guangdong, China. Approximate location 23.1685, 113.6833.

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Huadian Zengcheng Gas Thermal power station is a 1,340 MW other power station in Guangdong, China. It is operated by Huadian Fuxin Guangzhou Energy Co Ltd. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 1,006,148 homes (estimated). It ranks #310 of 5,959 China power plants by installed capacity. Its measured emissions of 2,531,000 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE) are equivalent to about 589,977 cars driven for a year. In context, the national grid averages 525 gCO₂/kWh (41.7% low-carbon) (2025).

1,340MW installed capacity
1,006,148homes powered (est.)
2,531,000t CO₂ / yr (Climate TRACE)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id CT-2779.

2,531,000 t CO₂/yr — in everyday terms

This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:

589,977passenger cars driven for a year
330,073homes' yearly energy use
42,183,333tree seedlings grown 10 years to absorb it

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

Capacity vs largest other plants in China

Yudean Huizhou Gas power station: 2,550 MW3kYudean Hui…Hangzhou Banshan power station: 2,415 MW2kHangzhou B…Beijing Energy Jingxi Gas Thermal power station: 1,989 MW2kBeijing En…Guangzhou Pearl River LNG power station: 1,980 MW2kGuangzhou …Huaneng Beijing power station: 1,930 MW2kHuaneng Be…Chentangzhuang power station: 1,800 MW2kChentangzh…Yudean Zhongshan Sanjiao Gas Thermal power station: 1,660 MW2kYudean Zho…Chongqing Relocation power station: 1,396 MW1kChongqing …

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

Owner

Operated by Huadian Fuxin Guangzhou Energy Co Ltd.

Local climate & thermal context

This other plant generates electricity for the grid. It sits in a humid subtropical (dry winter) climate (Köppen Cwa) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 23.2°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

22.5°Cannual mean temp
273heating degree-days (base 18°C)
1,913cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
6 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 14 °CJF: 15 °CFM: 18 °CMA: 22 °CAM: 26 °CMJ: 28 °CJJ: 29 °CJA: 29 °CAS: 28 °CSO: 25 °CON: 20 °CND: 16 °CD29 °C

Heating degree-days here run 89% 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: 18/100 — this site sits in the bottom 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 #11 largest other power plant of 105 in China by capacity.

China has 105 other power plants in this dataset, together about 61,460 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 23.1685, 113.6833 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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