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Shunde Oil

Oil power plant in Guangdong, China. Approximate location 22.79, 113.18.

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Shunde Oil is a 278 MW oil power station in Guangdong, China. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 208,738 homes (estimated). It ranks #1365 of 5,959 China power plants by installed capacity. Its measured emissions of 973,500 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE) are equivalent to about 226,923 cars driven for a year. In context, oil supplies about 0.8% of China's electricity; the national grid averages 525 gCO₂/kWh (41.7% low-carbon) (2025).

278MW installed capacity
208,738homes powered (est.)
973,500t CO₂ / yr (Climate TRACE)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1029832.

973,500 t CO₂/yr — in everyday terms

This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:

226,923passenger cars driven for a year
126,956homes' yearly energy use
16,225,000tree seedlings grown 10 years to absorb it

Equivalencies via US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies; emissions reported to Climate TRACE.

Capacity vs largest oil plants in China

Penny's Bay: 300 MW300Penny's BayPenny's Bay Oil: 300 MW300Penny's Ba…Shunde Oil: 278 MW278Shunde OilColoane A: 271 MW271Coloane ADAYA BAY CSPC: 240 MW240DAYA BAY C…Wuhan - Zhuankou Oil: 180 MW180Wuhan - Zh…LHASA TPSP: 104 MW104LHASA TPSP

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

Local climate & thermal context

This oil plant burns oil or diesel to drive turbines or reciprocating engines. It sits in a humid subtropical (dry winter) climate (Köppen Cwa) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 22.8°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

22.5°Cannual mean temp
258heating degree-days (base 18°C)
1,929cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
2 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 14 °CJF: 15 °CFM: 18 °CMA: 22 °CAM: 26 °CMJ: 28 °CJJ: 29 °CJA: 29 °CAS: 28 °CSO: 25 °CON: 20 °CND: 16 °CD29 °C

Heating degree-days here run 90% 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: 17/100 — this site sits in the bottom 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 #3 largest oil power plant of 7 in China by capacity.

China has 7 oil power plants in this dataset, together about 1,672 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 22.79, 113.18 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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