Ningdong Fangjiazhuang power station — China

Ningdong Fangjiazhuang power station is a 2,000 MW coal power station in Ningxia, China. It is operated by Guoneng Zheneng Ningdong Power Generation Co Ltd [100%]. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 2.5 million homes (estimated). It ranks #375 of 6,685 China power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2019, it is around 7 years old — recently built. In context, coal supplies about 54.3% 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_coa_ningdongfangjiazhuan_china.

Data provenance

Source of the capacity and fuel values:

capacity: GEM · 2026 · L100000101190; fuel: GEM GCPT

In context: how this plant compares

At 2,000 MW, Ningdong Fangjiazhuang power station is well above the median coal plant in China (700 MW). Technically it is described as ultra-supercritical. Coal plants burn pulverised coal to raise high-pressure steam for a turbine; they run as baseload but are the most carbon-intensive mainstream source and the first targeted for retirement or efficiency retrofits.

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

Key facts

Share of China coal capacity

0.1% of 1,882,493 MW across 1,907 plants in this dataset

Age among peers

1,197 of 1,446 dated coal plants in China are older

Calculated from the capacity and generation records in this dataset (WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0)).

Capacity vs largest coal plants in China

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

Owner

Operated by Guoneng Zheneng Ningdong Power Generation Co Ltd [100%].

Local climate & thermal context

This coal plant burns coal to raise high-pressure steam that spins a turbine-generator. It sits in a cold semi-arid steppe climate (Köppen BSk) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 37.8°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 52% 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: 81/100 — this site sits in the top third of the power plants we cover by heating degree-days.

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.

Site climate & environmental severity

This site sits in a benign, low-corrosion environment (estimated ISO 9223 class C1 — Very low), with dust abrasion the leading environmental stress.

Indicative estimate via the ISO 9223:2012 informative method (atmospheric corrosivity from temperature, time-of-wetness and airborne salinity), using WorldClim climate normals, the Köppen-Geiger class and coast distance. Indicative, not a measured corrosion rate.

How it compares & nearby plants

The #267 largest coal power plant of 1907 in China by capacity.

China has 1907 coal power plants in this dataset, together about 1,882,493 MW of capacity.

Nearby power plants

• Ningdong II · Solar · 20 MW · Ningxia Huizu Zizhiqu
• Ningdong I · Solar · 10 MW · Ningxia Huizu Zizhiqu
• Yangjiayao · Wind · 45 MW · Ningxia Huizu Zizhiqu
• Huadian Ningxia Ningdong Phase 4 · Wind · 49 MW · Ningxia Huizu Zizhiqu
• Huadian Ningxia Ningdong Yangjiayao Expansion · Wind · 12 MW · Ningxia Huizu Zizhiqu
• Huadian Ningxia Ningdong Yangjiayao · Wind · 45 MW · Ningxia Huizu Zizhiqu

Location

Coordinates 37.837649, 106.666501 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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