Laiyang nuclear power plant — China

Laiyang nuclear power plant is a 3,086 MW nuclear power station in Shandong, China. It ranks #149 of 6,685 China power plants by installed capacity. As a non-combustion source, it has no direct CO₂ emissions from generation. In context, nuclear supplies about 4.6% 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_nuc_laiyang_china.

Data provenance

Source of the capacity and fuel values:

capacity: GEM Global Nuclear Power Tracker September 2025 unit-status sum (announced); fuel: GEM GNPT

In context: how this plant compares

At 3,086 MW, Laiyang nuclear power plant is below the median nuclear plant in China (5,000 MW). Technically it is described as pressurized water reactor. Its current lifecycle status is “Announced” — so it is not yet, or no longer, generating at full output. Nuclear plants split uranium to raise steam with no direct CO₂; they run as steady baseload with very high capacity factors and the longest operating lifetimes of any thermal plant.

Capacity comparison computed from the WRI Global Power Plant Database; fuel-type context is general engineering background.

How it compares & nearby plants

The #51 largest nuclear power plant of 72 in China by capacity.

China has 72 nuclear power plants in this dataset, together about 313,184 MW of capacity.

Nearby power plants

• Shandong Laixi power station · Biomass · 40 MW · Shandong Sheng
• Shandong Laiyang power station · Biomass · 15 MW · Shandong Sheng
• Yantai Laiyang cogen power station · Coal · 50 MW · Shandong
• Shandong Qingdao Laixi Juneng power station · Gas · 920 MW · Shandong
• Shandong Haiyang Qiuershan Wind · Wind · 15 MW · Shandong Sheng
• Laixi Guhe Thermal power station · Gas · 460 MW · Shandong

Location

Coordinates 36.717052, 120.700689 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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