Shenhua Zhundong Wucaiwan power station is a 2,020 MW coal power station in Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu, China. It ranks #283 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 WRI1070333.
Known, modelled and calculated values are kept separate. Missing fields are shown as unavailable.
The public capacity above is the current source-record value. A 2026 tracker candidate lists 2,020 MW for Shenhua Zhundong Wucaiwan power station, but it is not used as the public primary value until scope is verified (unit vs operating vs installed/project total).
The capacity and/or fuel fields on this page include a source-backed provenance label from GEM, an official registry, Wikidata, OSM, or a cross-source match.
capacity: GEM · 2026 · L100000101677; fuel: WRI GPPD
At 2,020 MW, Shenhua Zhundong Wucaiwan power station is well above the median coal plant in China (700 MW). Technically it is described as ultra-supercritical. Its current lifecycle status is “Announced” — 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.
The #178 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.
Coordinates 44.7955, 89.1498 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Shenhua Zhundong Wucaiwan power station is a 2,020 MW coal power plant in Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu, China, Announced 2015.
