Qahar Right Rear power station — China

Qahar Right Rear power station is a 2,640 MW coal power station in Inner Mongolia, China. It ranks #189 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_qaharrightrear_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 2,640 MW, Qahar Right Rear 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 “Announced” — 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 #109 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

• Inner Mongolia Datang International Hongmu Phase 2 · Wind · 49 MW · Inner Mongolia
• Datang New Energy Chayouhouqi Hanwula · Wind · 49 MW · Inner Mongolia
• Inner Mongolia Chayouhouqi Hongmu Wind · Wind · 48 MW · Inner Mongolia
• Hongmu II · Solar · 20 MW · Inner Mongolia
• Chayouhouqi Hongmu Phase 1 · Solar · 20 MW · Inner Mongolia
• Wulanchabu Xinghe Phase 1 · Wind · 50 MW · Inner Mongolia

Location

Coordinates 41.435257, 113.174757 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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