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Jinhai

Solar power plant in Hainan, China. Approximate location 19.775, 109.185.

SolarHainanChinaCO₂ reported

Jinhai is a 37 MW solar power plant in Hainan, China. It is operated by Hainan Jinhai Pulp & Paper Co Ltd. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 15,742 homes (estimated). It ranks #3421 of 5,959 China power plants by installed capacity. Its measured emissions of 1,352,800 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE) are equivalent to about 315,338 cars driven for a year. In context, solar supplies about 11.1% of China's electricity; the national grid averages 525 gCO₂/kWh (41.7% low-carbon) (2025).

37MW installed capacity
15,742homes powered (est.)
1,352,800t CO₂ / yr (Climate TRACE)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WKS0062481.

1,352,800 t CO₂/yr — in everyday terms

This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:

315,338passenger cars driven for a year
176,421homes' yearly energy use
22,546,667tree seedlings grown 10 years to absorb it

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

Capacity vs largest solar plants in China

Datong TopRunner: 1,000 MW1kDatong Top…Ili Kazakh I: 1,000 MW1kIli Kazakh…Yanchi: 1,000 MW1kYanchiToksun: 971 MW971ToksunHongshagang: 820 MW820HongshagangLongyangxia Solar-Hydro II: 530 MW530Longyangxi…Alashan 1p3: 500 MW500Alashan 1p3DhSP} CTGNE: 500 MW500DhSP} CTGNE

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

Owner

Operated by Hainan Jinhai Pulp & Paper Co Ltd.

Local climate & thermal context

This solar plant converts sunlight directly into electricity with photovoltaic panels. It sits in a tropical savanna climate (Köppen Aw) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 19.8°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

24.6°Cannual mean temp
0heating degree-days (base 18°C)
2,409cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
16 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 18 °CJF: 19 °CFM: 22 °CMA: 25 °CAM: 28 °CMJ: 29 °CJJ: 29 °CJA: 29 °CAS: 28 °CSO: 26 °CON: 23 °CND: 20 °CD29 °C

Heating degree-days here run 100% 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: 13/100 — 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.

Solar PV loses ~0.35%/°C above 25°C cell temperature — roughly 1.4% at warm-season highs here (estimate).

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 #412 largest solar power plant of 1318 in China by capacity.

China has 1318 solar power plants in this dataset, together about 54,802 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 19.775, 109.185 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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