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Inner Mongolia Hohhot Saihan power station

Biomass power plant in Inner Mongolia, China. Approximate location 40.6774, 111.7253.

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Inner Mongolia Hohhot Saihan power station is a 9 MW biomass power plant in Inner Mongolia, China. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 12,389 homes (estimated). It ranks #5563 of 5,959 China power plants by installed capacity. In context, biomass supplies about 2.0% of China's electricity; the national grid averages 525 gCO₂/kWh (41.7% low-carbon) (2025).

9MW installed capacity
12,389homes powered (est.)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id CT-3703.

Capacity vs largest biomass plants in China

Guangdong Guangzhou Huangpu District power station: 250 MW250Guangdong …Guangdong Zhanjiang (Chenming) power station: 240 MW240Guangdong …Hubei Jianli (Nine Dragons Paper) power station: 240 MW240Hubei Jian…Guangdong Shenzhen East power station: 180 MW180Guangdong …Guangdong Xinfeng power station: 180 MW180Guangdong …Guangxi Beihai (Sun Paper) power station: 160 MW160Guangxi Be…Shanghai Laogang power station: 150 MW150Shanghai L…Zhejiang Linjiang power station: 135 MW135Zhejiang L…

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

Local climate & thermal context

This biomass plant burns organic material (wood, residues) to raise steam for a turbine. 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.

6.1°Cannual mean temp
4,545heating degree-days (base 18°C)
228cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
1,059 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: -13 °CJF: -8 °CFM: 0 °CMA: 8 °CAM: 16 °CMJ: 20 °CJJ: 22 °CJA: 20 °CAS: 14 °CSO: 7 °CON: -2 °CND: -10 °CD22 °C

Heating degree-days here run 85% 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.

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 #938 largest biomass power plant of 981 in China by capacity.

China has 981 biomass power plants in this dataset, together about 29,906 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 40.6774, 111.7253 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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