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Suzhou - GCL Gas

Gas power plant in Jiangsu Sheng, China. Approximate location 31.3, 120.8.

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Suzhou - GCL Gas is a 360 MW gas power station in Jiangsu Sheng, China. It is operated by Suzhou Industrial Park Lantian Fuel Gas Thermoelectricity Co Ltd. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 405,462 homes (estimated). It ranks #1249 of 5,959 China power plants by installed capacity. Its measured emissions of 691,110 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE) are equivalent to about 161,098 cars driven for a year. In context, gas supplies about 3.2% of China's electricity; the national grid averages 525 gCO₂/kWh (41.7% low-carbon) (2025).

360MW installed capacity
405,462homes powered (est.)
691,110t CO₂ / yr (Climate TRACE)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1029833.

691,110 t CO₂/yr — in everyday terms

This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:

161,098passenger cars driven for a year
90,129homes' yearly energy use
11,518,500tree seedlings grown 10 years to absorb it

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

Capacity vs largest gas plants in China

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

Owner

Operated by Suzhou Industrial Park Lantian Fuel Gas Thermoelectricity Co Ltd.

Local climate & thermal context

This gas plant burns natural gas in a turbine — often in a combined-cycle setup — to generate electricity. It sits in a humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 31.3°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

15.9°Cannual mean temp
1,735heating degree-days (base 18°C)
986cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
3 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 4 °CJF: 5 °CFM: 9 °CMA: 14 °CAM: 20 °CMJ: 24 °CJJ: 28 °CJA: 28 °CAS: 23 °CSO: 18 °CON: 12 °CND: 6 °CD28 °C

Heating degree-days here run 29% 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: 38/100 — 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.

A gas turbine here also runs ~1% below its ISO (15°C) rating at this annual mean (typical CCGT curve, estimate).

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 #103 largest gas power plant of 315 in China by capacity.

China has 315 gas power plants in this dataset, together about 116,718 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 31.3, 120.8 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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