Power plants and the grid in Baja California Sur
Baja California Sur has 12 power plants with 921 MW of capacity, oil the largest share at 538 MW.
Capacity by fuel
12 power plants with 921 MW of capacity, planned generators left out.
- Oil: 538 MW from 4 plants (58%)
- Other: 210 MW from 1 plant (23%)
- Solar: 114 MW from 5 plants (12%)
- Wind: 50 MW from 1 plant (5%)
- Geothermal: 10 MW from 1 plant (1%)
Largest plants
- Central de Combustión Interna Baja California Sur: Other, 210 MW
- Baja California Sur I: Oil, 163 MW
- Central Turbogas Los Cabos: Oil, 159 MW
- Punta Prieta II: Oil, 113 MW
- Gral. Agustín Olachea A. (Puerto San Carlos): Oil, 104 MW
- Parque eólico Coromuel: Wind, 50 MW
- Aura III: Solar, 32 MW
- Servicios Comerciales De Energía: Solar, 30 MW
- Aura I: Solar, 28 MW
- Sol de Insurgentes: Solar, 23 MW
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)
States and provinces (simplified polygons): Natural Earth 10m admin-1. License: Public domain