Huaneng Songyuan Cogen power station is a 150 MW coal power station in Jilin, China. It is operated by Huaneng Songyuan Thermal Power Co Ltd [100%]. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 188k homes (estimated). It ranks #2341 of 6,685 China power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2000, it is around 26 years old — long-established. 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_huanengsongyuancogen_china.
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capacity: GEM · 2026 · L100000101082; fuel: GEM GCPT
At 150 MW, Huaneng Songyuan Cogen power station is below the median coal plant in China (700 MW). Technically it is described as subcritical. 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 Huaneng Songyuan Thermal Power Co Ltd [100%].
This coal plant burns coal to raise high-pressure steam that spins a turbine-generator. It sits in a monsoon hot-summer continental climate (Köppen Dwa) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 45.1°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.
Climate zone & typical temperatures: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid).
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 #1556 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 45.14332, 124.787718 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Huaneng Songyuan Cogen power station is a 150 MW coal power plant in Jilin, China, commissioned in 2000.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 187,714 homes (estimated).
Huaneng Songyuan Cogen power station is operated by Huaneng Songyuan Thermal Power Co Ltd [100%].
