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Waigaoqiao Power Station

Pudong, China

The 53rd largest power station in the world

5.08 GW · Capacity

The Waigaoqiao Power Station (pinyin: Wàigāoqiáo Fādiànchǎng) is a coal-fired power station in Pudong, Shanghai, China. With an installed capacity of 5,000 MW, it is the 7th largest coal-fired power station in the world. (It shares this title with the Guodian Beilun, Guohua Taishan, and Jiaxing power stations) The power stations produces up to 11.4 TWh of energy annually. It is owned by China Power Investment, a local power company.

Power station data from Wikidata (CC0). Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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