Qinglong power station — China

Qinglong power station is a 2,100 MW coal power station in Guizhou, China. It ranks #270 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_qinglong_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 2,100 MW, Qinglong power station is well above the median coal plant in China (700 MW). Technically it is described as supercritical. Its current lifecycle status is “Shelved” — 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 #168 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

• Guizhou Xingren power station · Coal · 2,640 MW · Guizhou
• Jinlian Xingren Aluminum power station · Coal · 1,050 MW · Guizhou
• Mingchuanhui Xingren power station · Coal · 700 MW · Guizhou
• Denggao Xingren power station · Coal · 1,200 MW · Guizhou
• Pu'an power station · Coal · 1,320 MW · Guangxi Zhuangzu Zizhiqu
• Guizhou Zhenfeng (CECEP) power station · Biomass · 12 MW · Guangxi Zhuangzu Zizhiqu

Location

Coordinates 25.646713, 105.236263 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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