Ningdong I

Ningdong I is a 10 MW solar power plant in Ningxia Huizu Zizhiqu, China. It is operated by Guoneng Zheneng Ningdong Power Generation Co Ltd. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 4,254 homes (estimated). It ranks #5409 of 5,959 China power plants by installed capacity. Its measured emissions of 8,791,200 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE) are equivalent to about 2,049,231 cars driven for a year. In context, solar supplies about 11.1% 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 WKS0061597.

8,791,200 t CO₂/yr — in everyday terms

This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:

Equivalencies via US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies; emissions reported to Climate TRACE.

Capacity vs largest solar 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.

Local climate & thermal context

This solar plant converts sunlight directly into electricity with photovoltaic panels. 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 50% 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: 80/100 — 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.

Solar PV loses ~0.35%/°C above 25°C cell temperature — roughly 0.0% at warm-season highs here (estimate).

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 #1170 largest solar power plant of 1318 in China by capacity.

China has 1318 solar power plants in this dataset, together about 54,802 MW of capacity.

Nearby power plants

• Ningdong II · Solar · 20 MW · Ningxia Huizu Zizhiqu
• Huadian Ningxia Ningdong Yangjiayao Expansion · Wind · 12 MW · Ningxia Huizu Zizhiqu
• Yangjiayao · Wind · 45 MW · Ningxia Huizu Zizhiqu
• Huadian Ningxia Ningdong Yangjiayao · Wind · 45 MW · Ningxia Huizu Zizhiqu
• Huadian Ningxia Ningdong Phase 4 · Wind · 49 MW · Ningxia Huizu Zizhiqu
• Huadian Ningxia Ningdong Phase 5 · Wind · 49 MW · Ningxia Huizu Zizhiqu

Location

Coordinates 37.848, 106.64 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.