Xinjiang Korla power station is a 15 MW biomass power plant in Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu, China. It is operated by Chongqing Sanfeng Environment Group Corp Ltd. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 21k homes (estimated). It ranks #5814 of 6,685 China power plants by installed capacity. In context, biomass supplies about 2.0% 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 CT-4002.
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capacity: GEM tracker 2026 (location L100000101678); fuel: Climate TRACE source-record fuel
At 15 MW, Xinjiang Korla power station is below the median biomass plant in China (30 MW). Biomass plants burn organic material such as wood, residues or waste-derived fuel to raise steam; they are dispatchable and counted as low-carbon where the feedstock is sustainably sourced.
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 Chongqing Sanfeng Environment Group Corp Ltd. All plants by this company →
This biomass plant burns organic material (wood, residues) to raise steam for a turbine. It sits in a cold desert climate (Köppen BWk) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 41.7°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.
Monthly mean temperature
Heating degree-days here run 32% above 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: 69/100 — this site sits in the top third of the power plants we cover by heating degree-days.
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.
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 dust abrasion 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 #758 largest biomass power plant of 981 in China by capacity.
China has 981 biomass power plants in this dataset, together about 30,108 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 41.6637, 86.2871 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Xinjiang Korla power station is a 15 MW source-record biomass power plant in Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu, China.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 20,648 homes (estimated).
Xinjiang Korla power station is operated by Chongqing Sanfeng Environment Group Corp Ltd.
