Tallest cooling tower

What to remember

In Huaibei, in China's Anhui Province, Pingshan Power Station gained a 210 m cooling tower in 2020, or 689 feet. No other cooling tower reaches that height.

The coal-fired station was built in two phases. Phase one has two 660 MW units, each with its own scrubbing systems and cooling towers. Phase two is a single ultra-supercritical secondary-reheat unit of 1,350 MW, among the largest single coal-fired units in the world, and it is this unit that the record tower serves.

Engineering and design work was handled by the East China Institute of Energy. The phase-two unit is rated at a coal consumption of 251 g/kWh.