Weihe power station — China

Weihe power station is a 1,320 MW coal power station in Guizhou, China. It ranks #736 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_weihe_china.

Data provenance

Capacity and fuel are the upstream open-dataset record, not yet matched to a 2026 registry or GEM entry.

capacity: GEM GCPT; fuel: GEM GCPT

In context: how this plant compares

At 1,320 MW, Weihe 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 “Construction” — 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.

How it compares & nearby plants

The #563 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.

Nearby power plants

• Bijie Qixingguan power station · Coal · 1,320 MW · Guizhou
• Zhenxiong Yigu-Niuchang power station · Coal · 2,000 MW · Yunnan
• Zhenxiong County Tongping · Hydro · 20 MW · Yunnan
• Huaneng Wujiangyuan Baicaoping · Wind · 50 MW · Guizhou Sheng
• Zhenxiong CFB Waste Coal power station · Coal · 700 MW · Yunnan
• Huadian Zhenxiong power station · Coal · 1,200 MW · Yunnan

Location

Coordinates 27.2196455, 104.648633 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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