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Wuhan - Zhuankou Oil

Oil power plant in Hubei, China. Approximate location 30.47, 114.2.

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Wuhan - Zhuankou Oil is a 180 MW oil power station in Hubei, China. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 135,154 homes (estimated). It ranks #1598 of 5,959 China power plants by installed capacity. In context, oil supplies about 0.8% of China's electricity; the national grid averages 525 gCO₂/kWh (41.7% low-carbon) (2025).

180MW installed capacity
135,154homes powered (est.)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1029835.

~354,780 t CO₂/yr (estimated) — in everyday terms

This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:

82,699passenger cars driven for a year
46,268homes' yearly energy use
5,913,000tree seedlings grown 10 years to absorb it

Estimated, not measured: from installed capacity at a typical 30% load factor × a typical oil emission factor (~750 g CO₂/kWh, IPCC AR5 / US EIA). Actual emissions depend on plant efficiency and running hours.Equivalencies via US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies.

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 climate (Köppen Cfa) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 30.5°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

17.0°Cannual mean temp
1,552heating degree-days (base 18°C)
1,208cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
32 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 4 °CJF: 6 °CFM: 10 °CMA: 17 °CAM: 22 °CMJ: 26 °CJJ: 29 °CJA: 29 °CAS: 24 °CSO: 18 °CON: 12 °CND: 7 °CD29 °C

Heating degree-days here run 37% 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: 35/100 — 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.

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 #6 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 30.47, 114.2 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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