China's newest Power Plant swaps steam for supercritical CO2

Filed by Max the Cryptid Reporter

  By Haley Zaremba - Sep 23, 2026, 4:00 PM CDTChina has started building the Ruitan demonstration project in Shandong, the first plant to pair molten salt thermal storage with a supercritical CO2 turbine, with operations expected next year.The first phase combines a 50-MW supercritical CO2 unit with 100 MW of molten salt storage, built at the coal-fired Bajiao power station in Yantai to soak up surplus power and release it at peak demand.The project lands as Chinese companies file about 75