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Shanghai Tianma power station

Biomass power plant in Shanghai Shi, China. Approximate location 31.0926, 121.1044.

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Shanghai Tianma power station is a 60 MW biomass power plant in Shanghai Shi, China. It is operated by Shanghai Environment Group Co Ltd. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 82,594 homes (estimated). It ranks #2310 of 5,959 China power plants by installed capacity. In context, biomass supplies about 2.0% of China's electricity; the national grid averages 525 gCO₂/kWh (41.7% low-carbon) (2025).

60MW installed capacity
82,594homes powered (est.)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id CT-4327.

Capacity vs largest biomass plants in China

Guangdong Guangzhou Huangpu District power station: 250 MW250Guangdong …Guangdong Zhanjiang (Chenming) power station: 240 MW240Guangdong …Hubei Jianli (Nine Dragons Paper) power station: 240 MW240Hubei Jian…Guangdong Shenzhen East power station: 180 MW180Guangdong …Guangdong Xinfeng power station: 180 MW180Guangdong …Guangxi Beihai (Sun Paper) power station: 160 MW160Guangxi Be…Shanghai Laogang power station: 150 MW150Shanghai L…Zhejiang Linjiang power station: 135 MW135Zhejiang L…

Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).

Owner

Operated by Shanghai Environment Group Co Ltd. All plants by this company →

Local climate & thermal context

This biomass plant burns organic material (wood, residues) to raise steam for a turbine. It sits in a humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 31.1°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

16.3°Cannual mean temp
1,652heating degree-days (base 18°C)
1,043cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
4 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 4 °CJF: 6 °CFM: 9 °CMA: 15 °CAM: 20 °CMJ: 24 °CJJ: 28 °CJA: 28 °CAS: 24 °CSO: 19 °CON: 13 °CND: 7 °CD28 °C

Heating degree-days here run 33% below 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: 37/100 — this site sits in the mid 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.

How it compares & nearby plants

The #77 largest biomass power plant of 981 in China by capacity.

China has 981 biomass power plants in this dataset, together about 29,906 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 31.0926, 121.1044 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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