Yantai Laiyang cogen power station — China

Yantai Laiyang cogen power station is a 50 MW coal power plant in Shandong, China. It ranks #3546 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_yantailaiyangcogen_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 50 MW, Yantai Laiyang cogen power station is below the median coal plant in China (700 MW). Technically it is described as subcritical. 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 #1850 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

• Shandong Laiyang power station · Biomass · 15 MW · Shandong Sheng
• Shandong Qingdao Laixi Juneng power station · Gas · 920 MW · Shandong
• Shandong Laixi power station · Biomass · 40 MW · Shandong Sheng
• Laixi Guhe Thermal power station · Gas · 460 MW · Shandong
• Laiyang nuclear power plant · Nuclear · 3,086 MW · Shandong
• Qixia Tangshanpeng · Wind · 21 MW · Shandong Sheng

Location

Coordinates 36.946768, 120.664298 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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