Coal power plant in Qinghai, China. Approximate location 36.528355, 101.488207.
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SPIC Qinghai Hainan Prefecture Gobi Energy Base supporting coal fired power project is a 2,640 MW coal power station in Qinghai, China. It is operated by SPIC Yellow River Upstream Hydropower Development Co Ltd. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 3.3 million homes (estimated). It ranks #195 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 GEM_coa_spicqinghaihainanpre_china.
Known, modelled and calculated values are kept separate. Missing fields are shown as unavailable.
The capacity and fuel fields on this page are source-record values from the upstream open dataset. They are useful for identification and ranking, but they have not been upgraded to a 2026 registry/GEM-location verified value.
capacity: GEM GCPT; fuel: GEM GCPT
At 2,640 MW, SPIC Qinghai Hainan Prefecture Gobi Energy Base supporting coal fired power project is well above the median coal plant in China (700 MW). Technically it is described as ultra-supercritical. 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.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by SPIC Yellow River Upstream Hydropower Development Co Ltd.
This coal plant burns coal to raise high-pressure steam that spins a turbine-generator. It sits in a monsoon subarctic climate (Köppen Dwc) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 36.5°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.
Climate zone & typical temperatures: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid).
For a plant’s outdoor hardware — heat-recovery steam generators (HRSG), expansion joints, valves, flanges and their insulation — the local climate sets how fast unprotected steel and coatings degrade. This site sits in a benign, low-corrosion environment (estimated ISO 9223 class C1 — Very low), with thermal cycling the leading environmental stress.
Higher environmental severity is exactly where protective removable insulation pays back most: a sheltered micro-climate slows corrosion, UV and thermal-cycling damage and extends outdoor hardware service life. This is an indicative site-climate context — not a condition assessment of any specific plant or operator.
Indicative estimate via the ISO 9223:2012 informative method (atmospheric corrosivity from temperature, time-of-wetness and airborne salinity), using WorldClim climate normals, the Köppen-Geiger class and coast distance. Indicative, not a measured corrosion rate.
The #111 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 36.528355, 101.488207 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
SPIC Qinghai Hainan Prefecture Gobi Energy Base supporting coal fired power project is a 2,640 MW coal power plant in Qinghai, China.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 3,303,771 homes (estimated).
SPIC Qinghai Hainan Prefecture Gobi Energy Base supporting coal fired power project is operated by SPIC Yellow River Upstream Hydropower Development Co Ltd.
