Zezhou cogen power station — China

Zezhou cogen power station is a 80 MW coal power plant in Shanxi, China. It ranks #2854 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_zezhoucogen_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 80 MW, Zezhou cogen power station is below the median coal plant in China (700 MW). 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 #1747 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

• Shanxi Jingang Intelligent Manufacturing Technology Industrial Co., Ltd. power project · Gas · 300 MW · Shanxi Sheng
• Shanxi Gaoping (Nonggu Danfeng) power station · Biomass · 15 MW · Shanxi Sheng
• Jincheng Chengzhuang Coal Mine Methane · Gas · 18 MW · Shanxi Sheng
• Shanxi Herui Coal Mine Methane · Gas · 45 MW · Shanxi Sheng
• Yangcheng power station · Coal · 3,300 MW · Shanxi Sheng
• SDIC Jincheng power station · Coal · 600 MW · Shanxi Sheng

Location

Coordinates 35.663227, 112.738955 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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