Jimsar cogen power station — China

Jimsar cogen power station is a 700 MW coal power station in Xinjiang, China. It ranks #1339 of 6,685 China power plants by installed capacity. 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_jimsarcogen_china.

Data provenance

Capacity and fuel are the upstream open-dataset record, not yet matched to a 2026 registry or GEM entry.

capacity: GEM GCPT; fuel: GEM GCPT

In context: how this plant compares

At 700 MW, Jimsar cogen power station is around the median coal plant in China (700 MW). Technically it is described as supercritical. Its current lifecycle status is “Construction” — so it is not yet, or no longer, generating at full output. 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.

How it compares & nearby plants

The #966 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.

Nearby power plants

• Jimusaer Color Bay power station · Coal · 2,000 MW · Xinjiang
• Changji · Solar · 82 MW · Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu
• Changji II · Solar · 20 MW · Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu
• Hongqi · Solar · 20.2 MW · Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu
• Tianshan Qitai power station · Coal · 700 MW · Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu
• Beisantai Industrial Park power station · Coal · 600 MW · Xinjiang

Location

Coordinates 43.959, 89.213 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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