Two ways to buy: the dataset once, or maintained. The registry is free for the first 30 plants, with every source and verification date. The full 442 records are paid.
| Free | Edition — $750 | Monitoring — $79/mo | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Browse the registry (table + map) | First 30 plants | All 442 | All 442 |
| Plant, company, country, mineral, process | Included | Included | Included |
| Nameplate capacity, sources, verification date | Included | Included | Included |
| Offtake — who each plant sells to | 12-row preview | 314 plants | 314 plants |
| Actual output, where a source states it | — | Included | Included |
| CSV download | — | Snapshot | Live export |
| API | — | — | Included |
| Weekly change digest | China Watch | — | Full registry diff |
| Change alerts on your watchlist | — | — | Included |
| Contacts — who to reach at each plant | — | — | Included |
| Re-verification and dated corrections | — | — | Included |
The Edition is the registry as it stands on the day it is issued, with each record carrying the date of its source and the date it was last checked. Plants are sold, close, commission and revise capacity, so the edition decays. Monitoring is the same registry re-checked on a weekly cadence, with a diff of what changed, alerts on the plants you follow, and the contacts to act on it.
Monitoring is $790 a year, which is two months short of twelve payments. The Edition is $750 and includes no updates. If the registry is a reference you consult occasionally, buy the Edition. If it informs decisions you make repeatedly, take Monitoring.
A copy of the dataset costs nothing to reproduce, so a free trial or a refund window is a way to obtain the whole registry at no cost. Instead, thirty records are published in full on the free tier: a source, a date and a correction route for each, which is enough to judge the standard before paying. What the paid tier guarantees is not satisfaction but accuracy: if a record is wrong, it is corrected and the correction is dated. That obligation applies whether or not you renew.
Actual output is shown only where a source states a real figure — a filing, a quarterly report, a government table. Where a plant does not disclose production, the record says so. We never invent a number, and we never present nameplate capacity as output.
Checkout is not live yet. To arrange access, write to [email protected]: we send an invoice and, once it clears, the export and an API key. The Edition is $750 once. Monitoring is $79 a month or $790 a year, with offtake, actual output where a source states it, contacts, alerts, CSV and API export, and the weekly change digest.