Kuitun River Stage 6 is a 18 MW hydro power plant in Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu, China. It ranks #5534 of 6,685 China power plants by installed capacity. As a non-combustion source, it has no direct CO₂ emissions from generation. In context, hydro supplies about 13.2% 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 WRI1072271.
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The capacity and fuel fields on this page are source-record values from the upstream open dataset. They are useful for identification and ranking, but they have not been upgraded to a 2026 registry/GEM-location verified value.
capacity: WRI GPPD; fuel: WRI GPPD
At 18 MW, Kuitun River Stage 6 is below the median hydro plant in China (24 MW). Its current lifecycle status is “Construction” — so it is not yet, or no longer, generating at full output. Hydropower converts the energy of falling or flowing water into electricity; output depends on rainfall and reservoir level, and large dams also provide grid balancing and storage.
Capacity comparison computed from the WRI Global Power Plant Database; fuel-type context is general engineering background.
The #570 largest hydro power plant of 947 in China by capacity.
China has 947 hydro power plants in this dataset, together about 262,337 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 44.3203, 84.7814 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Kuitun River Stage 6 is a 18 MW hydro power plant in Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu, China.
