LHASA TPSP is a 104 MW oil power station in Tibet Autonomous Region, China. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 77,713 homes (estimated). It ranks #1844 of 5,959 China power plants by installed capacity. Its measured emissions of 394,060 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE) are equivalent to about 91,855 cars driven for a year. In context, oil supplies about 0.8% 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 CT-3278.
This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:
Equivalencies via US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies; emissions reported to Climate TRACE.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
This oil plant burns oil or diesel to drive turbines or reciprocating engines. It sits in a polar tundra climate (Köppen ET) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 29.7°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.
Monthly mean temperature
Heating degree-days here run 91% above 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: 92/100 — this site sits in the top 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.
The #7 largest oil power plant of 7 in China by capacity.
China has 7 oil power plants in this dataset, together about 1,672 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 29.6548, 90.9584 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
