CFE Sistema Interconectado Nacional (CFE-SIN)
CFE Sistema Interconectado Nacional (CFE-SIN) is a balancing authority on the North American grid. On the map it has 386 power plants with 75.5 GW of capacity, natural gas the largest share at 28.1 GW.
Capacity by fuel
386 power plants with 75.5 GW of capacity, planned generators left out.
- Natural gas: 28.1 GW from 63 plants (37%)
- Hydro: 12.7 GW from 86 plants (17%)
- Oil: 10.2 GW from 23 plants (14%)
- Solar: 8.3 GW from 76 plants (11%)
- Wind: 8 GW from 64 plants (11%)
- Coal: 5.4 GW from 3 plants (7%)
- Nuclear: 1.6 GW from 1 plant (2%)
- Biomass: 802 MW from 66 plants (1%)
- Geothermal: 346 MW from 3 plants (under 1%)
- Other: 7 MW from 1 plant (under 1%)
Largest plants
- Plutarco Elías Calles (Petacalco): Coal, 2.8 GW, Guerrero
- Manuel Moreno Torres (Chicoasén): Hydro, 2.4 GW, Chiapas
- Adolfo López Mateos (Tuxpan): Oil, 2.1 GW, Veracruz
- Centrales de ciclo combinado Escobedo y El Carmen: Natural gas, 1.7 GW, Nuevo León
- Central de ciclo combinado Topolobampo II y III: Natural gas, 1.7 GW, Sinaloa
- Laguna Verde: Nuclear, 1.6 GW, Veracruz
- Central Empalme I y II: Natural gas, 1.6 GW, Sonora
- Carbón II: Coal, 1.4 GW, Coahuila
- Manuel Álvarez Moreno (Manzanillo): Oil, 1.3 GW, Colima
- Infiernillo: Hydro, 1.2 GW, Guerrero
States and provinces
- Veracruz: 50 plants
- Oaxaca: 32 plants
- Sonora: 29 plants
- Jalisco: 26 plants
- Chihuahua: 22 plants
- Tamaulipas: 21 plants
- Nuevo León: 19 plants
- Michoacán: 16 plants
- Chiapas: 15 plants
- San Luis Potosí: 15 plants
- Coahuila: 14 plants
- Guanajuato: 13 plants
- Puebla: 13 plants
- Sinaloa: 13 plants
- Durango: 11 plants
- Aguascalientes: 10 plants
- México: 9 plants
- Yucatán: 9 plants
- Nayarit: 8 plants
- Guerrero: 7 plants
- Hidalgo: 5 plants
- Zacatecas: 5 plants
- Campeche: 4 plants
- Morelos: 4 plants
- Quintana Roo: 4 plants
- Tabasco: 4 plants
- Colima: 2 plants
- Distrito Federal: 2 plants
- Querétaro: 2 plants
- Tlaxcala: 2 plants
Sources
Power plants: EIA-860M (US); NRCan NACEI (Canada, Mexico); WRI GPPD (Mexico); OpenStreetMap via Geofabrik (Canada, Mexico gap fill); USGS USWTDB/USPVDB; EPA eGRID; Natural Earth admin-1; HIFLD control areas; location attributes from WorldPop (R2025A), Global Solar Atlas PVOUT, Global Wind Atlas 4, USFS Wildfire Hazard Potential, the USGS National Seismic Hazard Model and the previous publish's lines and substations; water distances from OpenStreetMap via Geofabrik; gas distances and county queue from the previous publish's EIA gas pipelines and LBNL Queued Up requests; nearest city from Natural Earth populated places; cooling degree days from NOAA NCEI nClimDiv county normals; elevation and slope from the Copernicus DEM GLO-30 (ESA, via AWS Open Data); water stress from WRI Aqueduct 4.0; ozone nonattainment from the EPA Green Book; drought from the U.S. Drought Monitor; tribal land from US Census TIGER/Line. License: ODbL (derivative database; EIA content is public domain, NRCan OGL-Canada, WRI GPPD CC BY 4.0; location attributes from WorldPop, Global Solar Atlas, Global Wind Atlas, LBNL Queued Up and WRI Aqueduct CC BY 4.0, USFS, USGS, EIA, NOAA, EPA, US Census and Natural Earth public domain, Copernicus DEM GLO-30 © DLR e.V. and Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, the U.S. Drought Monitor courtesy of NDMC)
Balancing authorities: HIFLD Control Areas (position, peak load); EIA-930 reference tables (which BAs are active); EIA-861 (a feature's BA); Wattlas outlines for Canadian and Mexican BAs. License: Public domain