Qingshui River Dahuashui — China

Qingshui River Dahuashui is a 200 MW hydro power station in Guizhou Sheng, China. It ranks #2153 of 6,685 China power plants by installed capacity. As a non-combustion source, it has no direct CO₂ emissions from generation. In context, hydro supplies about 13.2% 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 WRI1072311.

Data provenance

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

capacity: WRI GPPD; fuel: WRI GPPD

In context: how this plant compares

At 200 MW, Qingshui River Dahuashui is well above the median hydro plant in China (24 MW). Technically it is described as pumped storage. Its current lifecycle status is “Construction” — so it is not yet, or no longer, generating at full output. Hydropower converts the energy of falling or flowing water into electricity; output depends on rainfall and reservoir level, and large dams also provide grid balancing and storage.

Capacity comparison computed from the WRI Global Power Plant Database; fuel-type context is general engineering background.

How it compares & nearby plants

The #192 largest hydro power plant of 947 in China by capacity.

China has 947 hydro power plants in this dataset, together about 262,337 MW of capacity.

Nearby power plants

• Dahuashui · Hydro · 200 MW · Guizhou Sheng
• Weng'an Wengfu cogen power station · Coal · 120 MW · Guizhou
• Weng'an power station · Coal · 700 MW · Guizhou
• Guodian Duyun power station · Coal · 1,200 MW · Guizhou Sheng
• Kaiyang cogen power station · Coal · 200 MW · Guizhou
• Pingqing · Solar · 32 MW · Guizhou Sheng

Location

Coordinates 26.8618, 107.2737 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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