Shanxi Coal Hequ power station is an coal power plant in Shanxi Sheng, China. It is operated by Shanxi Coal Import and Export Group Hequ Energy Co Ltd. It ranks #5937 of 5,959 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 CT-4310.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by Shanxi Coal Import and Export Group Hequ Energy Co Ltd.
This coal plant burns coal to raise high-pressure steam that spins a turbine-generator. It sits in a cold semi-arid steppe climate (Köppen BSk) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 39.1°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 71% 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: 86/100 — 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.
China has 1434 coal power plants in this dataset, together about 1,249,175 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 39.1112, 111.1824 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
