Ling Ao is a 3,914 MW nuclear power station in Guangdong, China. It is operated by China General Nuclear Power Group (CGN). Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 8,816,564 homes (estimated). It ranks #42 of 5,959 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 WRI1061023.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by China General Nuclear Power Group (CGN).
This nuclear plant uses heat from nuclear fission to raise steam for a turbine-generator. It sits in a humid subtropical (dry winter) climate (Köppen Cwa) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 22.6°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 88% 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: 18/100 — 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.
The #6 largest nuclear power plant of 12 in China by capacity.
China has 12 nuclear power plants in this dataset, together about 33,402 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 22.6, 114.55 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
