Qinghai Chaqia Phase 1 is a 49 MW wind power plant in Qinghai Sheng, China. It is operated by Qinghai Upper Yellow River Hydropower Development Co Ltd [100%]. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 41,697 homes (estimated). It ranks #3759 of 6,705 China power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2017, it is around 9 years old — relatively modern. As a non-combustion source, it has no direct CO₂ emissions from generation. In context, wind supplies about 10.7% 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 WRI1072473.
At 49 MW, Qinghai Chaqia Phase 1 is around the median wind plant in China (49 MW). Technically it is described as Onshore. Wind turbines convert moving air into electricity; output is variable and site-dependent, and modern turbines deliver some of the lowest-cost new generation on many grids.
Capacity comparison computed from the WRI Global Power Plant Database; fuel-type context is general engineering background.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by Qinghai Upper Yellow River Hydropower Development Co Ltd [100%].
This wind plant converts the kinetic energy of wind into electricity through turbine rotors. It sits in a polar tundra climate (Köppen ET) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 36.6°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 150% 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: 98/100 — 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.
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 #535 largest wind power plant of 835 in China by capacity.
China has 835 wind power plants in this dataset, together about 50,990 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 36.615, 99.355 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
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Qinghai Chaqia Phase 1 is a 49 MW wind power plant in Qinghai Sheng, China, commissioned in 2017.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 41,697 homes (estimated).
Qinghai Chaqia Phase 1 is operated by Qinghai Upper Yellow River Hydropower Development Co Ltd [100%].
