1. Open Access Statement

Thermal Power Generation flipped to an open access journal in 2025. All articles published in the journal from Issue 1 of 2025 onward are open access works, which are archived on the journal’s official website immediately after publication and are permanently available to all users free of charge.

Please note that articles published before 2025 are not open access. The copyright of these articles belongs to the editorial department of the journal. In addition to the journal’s official website, users may access and download articles on Thermal Power Generation through databases such as CNKI, Wanfang Data, VIP, and Bookan.

2. Open Access License

The journal uses the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license, which allows all users to copy, distribute, and use the open access articles published in the journal in any media and format, provided that they follow the terms of the license, including:

When copying and distributing the open access articles published in the journal, users must provide appropriate attribution, include a link to the license, and indicate if any changes have been made to the original article. Attribution may be done in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the journal endorses the use. The articles cannot be used for commercial purposes. If the articles are remixed, transformed, or built upon, the modified articles cannot be distributed. For more detailed information on this license, please visit:

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

3. Copyright Policy

Before submission, authors should carefully read the Copyright Transfer Agreement and upload a signed copy during submission. According to the agreement, the authors agree to transfer the copyright of the manuscript — including but not limited to the rights of compilation (in whole or in part), reproduction in print and electronic forms, online dissemination, and distribution — to the editorial department of Thermal Power Generation, with worldwide applicability.

Authors retain the following rights, except as otherwise provided in Article 22 of the Copyright Law of the People’s Republic of China:

1) authors may quote parts of the manuscript or its figures in their subsequent works;

2) after publication, authors may translate the article into other languages and republish it in accordance with scholarly norms;

3) With proper attribution, authors may include the article in non-journal collections;

4) with proper attribution, authors may deposit the electronic version of the manuscript in their personal or institutional websites or repositories;

5) Authors may use the article in other ways under the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license.

4. Author Self-Archiving

The journal allows authors to deposit all versions of their articles in institutional or other repositories of their choice. When depositing, authors must include the standard bibliographic information of the journal publication in the metadata and identify it as the recommended version for citation.