Pengyang power station — China

Pengyang power station is a 1,320 MW coal power station in Ningxia, China. It ranks #723 of 6,685 China power plants by installed capacity. 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_pengyang_china.

Data provenance

Capacity and fuel are the upstream open-dataset record, not yet matched to a 2026 registry or GEM entry.

capacity: GEM GCPT; fuel: GEM GCPT

In context: how this plant compares

At 1,320 MW, Pengyang power station is well above the median coal plant in China (700 MW). Technically it is described as ultra-supercritical. Its current lifecycle status is “Construction” — so it is not yet, or no longer, generating at full output. 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.

How it compares & nearby plants

The #550 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

• Ningxia Liupanshan power station · Coal · 660 MW · Ningxia Huizu Zizhiqu
• Gansu Pingliang (Haichuang) power station · Biomass · 12 MW · Gansu Sheng
• Huaneng Pingliang power station · Coal · 2,520 MW · Gansu Sheng
• Ningxia Guyuan power station · Biomass · 15 MW · Ningxia Huizu Zizhiqu
• Yuanzhou A · Solar · 30 MW · Ningxia Huizu Zizhiqu
• Ningxia Electric Power Group Touying · Solar · 10 MW · Ningxia Huizu Zizhiqu

Location

Coordinates 35.855965, 106.640018 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

Frequently asked questions