Xinyuanjieneng Qingshuichuan power station — China

Xinyuanjieneng Qingshuichuan power station is a 600 MW coal power station in Shanxi Sheng, China. It is operated by Fugu Energy Development Fugu County Coal Electricity Smelter Chemistry Group. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 751k homes (estimated). It ranks #1590 of 6,685 China power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2015, it is around 11 years old — relatively modern. 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 WRI1075768.

Data provenance

Source of the capacity and fuel values:

capacity: GEM · 2026 · L100000101291; fuel: WRI GPPD

In context: how this plant compares

At 600 MW, Xinyuanjieneng Qingshuichuan power station is below the median coal plant in China (700 MW). Technically it is described as subcritical. 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.

Key facts

Share of China coal capacity

less than 0.1% of 1,882,493 MW across 1,907 plants in this dataset

Age among peers

1,021 of 1,446 dated coal plants in China are older

Calculated from the capacity and generation records in this dataset (WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0)).

Capacity vs largest coal plants in China

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

Owner

Operated by Fugu Energy Development Fugu County Coal Electricity Smelter Chemistry Group.

Local climate & thermal context

This coal plant burns coal to raise high-pressure steam that spins a turbine-generator. It sits in a cold semi-arid steppe climate (Köppen BSk) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 39.2°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 71% 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: 86/100 — 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.

Site climate & environmental severity

This site sits in a benign, low-corrosion environment (estimated ISO 9223 class C1 — Very low), with dust abrasion the leading environmental stress.

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.

How it compares & nearby plants

The #1201 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

• Fugu Qingshuichuan power station · Coal · 4,600 MW · Shanxi Sheng
• Aoweiqianyuan Captive power station · Coal · 100 MW · Shanxi Sheng
• Fugu Aowei Jianeng Coking-Electricity-Chemical power station · Coal · 100 MW · Shanxi Sheng
• Fugu Xiwangzhai power station · Coal · 1,320 MW · Shaanxi
• Shanxi Coal Hequ power station · Coal · 350 MW · Shanxi Sheng
• Tianqiao · Hydro · 128 MW · Shanxi Sheng

Location

Coordinates 39.1805, 111.0845 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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