Huaneng Shangdu power station

Huaneng Shangdu power station is a 3,720 MW coal power station in Inner Mongolia, China. It is operated by North United Power Co Ltd. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 4,655,314 homes (estimated). It ranks #45 of 5,959 China power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2008, it is around 18 years old — relatively modern. Its measured emissions of 16,443,000 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE) are equivalent to about 3,832,867 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).

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1070661.

16,443,000 t CO₂/yr — in everyday terms

This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:

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

Capacity vs largest coal plants in China

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

Owner

Operated by North United Power Co Ltd. 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 monsoon warm-summer continental climate (Köppen Dwb) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 42.2°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 134% 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: 97/100 — this site sits in the top 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 #27 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.

Nearby power plants

• Zhenglanqi · Solar · 100 MW · Inner Mongolia
• Xilinguolemeng Zhenglanqi Daaobao Phase 1 Wind · Wind · 49 MW · Inner Mongolia
• Zhenglanqi A · Solar · 50 MW · Inner Mongolia
• Datang Duolun Daxishan Farm Ii · Wind · 30 MW · Inner Mongolia
• Datang Duolun Daxishan Phase 3 · Wind · 49 MW · Inner Mongolia
• Duolun Coal Chemical power station · Coal · 280 MW · Inner Mongolia

Location

Coordinates 42.2237, 116.0293 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.