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Leiyang Baiyang power station

Coal power plant in Hunan, China. Approximate location 26.4595, 112.8681.

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Leiyang Baiyang power station is a 120 MW coal power station in Hunan, China. It is operated by Guangdong Shaoguan Energy Group. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 150,171 homes (estimated). It ranks #1770 of 5,959 China power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2007, it is around 19 years old — relatively modern. In context, coal supplies about 54.3% of China's electricity; the national grid averages 525 gCO₂/kWh (41.7% low-carbon) (2025).

120MW installed capacity
150,171homes powered (est.)
2007commissioned (~19 yrs)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1075666.

~525,600 t CO₂/yr (estimated) — in everyday terms

This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:

122,517passenger cars driven for a year
68,545homes' yearly energy use
8,760,000tree seedlings grown 10 years to absorb it

Estimated, not measured: from installed capacity at a typical 50% load factor × a typical coal emission factor (~1000 g CO₂/kWh, IPCC AR5 / US EIA). Actual emissions depend on plant efficiency and running hours.Equivalencies via US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies.

Capacity vs largest coal plants in China

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

Owner

Operated by Guangdong Shaoguan Energy Group.

Local climate & thermal context

This coal plant burns coal to raise high-pressure steam that spins a turbine-generator. It sits in a humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 26.5°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

18.2°Cannual mean temp
1,222heating degree-days (base 18°C)
1,331cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
123 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 6 °CJF: 8 °CFM: 12 °CMA: 18 °CAM: 23 °CMJ: 26 °CJJ: 29 °CJA: 28 °CAS: 25 °CSO: 20 °CON: 14 °CND: 9 °CD29 °C

Heating degree-days here run 50% 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: 29/100 — 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.

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 #1151 largest coal power plant of 1434 in China by capacity.

China has 1434 coal power plants in this dataset, together about 1,249,175 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 26.4595, 112.8681 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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