Power plants and the grid in Guanajuato
Guanajuato has 13 power plants with 2.4 GW of capacity, natural gas the largest share at 1.2 GW. The map shows 3 data centers in Guanajuato.
Capacity by fuel
13 power plants with 2.4 GW of capacity, planned generators left out.
- Natural gas: 1.2 GW from 4 plants (52%)
- Oil: 693 MW from 2 plants (29%)
- Solar: 357 MW from 4 plants (15%)
- Wind: 105 MW from 1 plant (4%)
- Hydro: 3 MW from 1 plant (under 1%)
- Biomass: 2 MW from 1 plant (under 1%)
Largest plants
- Salamanca: Oil, 550 MW
- Bajío (El Sáuz): Natural gas, 495 MW
- Cogeneración Salamanca: Natural gas, 393 MW
- Energía San Luis de la Paz: Natural gas, 220 MW
- Don José: Solar, 207 MW
- Pemex-Refinación, Ing. Antonio M. Amor: Oil, 143 MW
- Energía Azteca VIII: Natural gas, 131 MW
- Parque Eólico Santiago: Wind, 105 MW
- Mexsolar: Solar, 60 MW
- Tampico Proteus Solar Plant: Solar, 60 MW
Largest plants near León
- Ecosys III: Biomass, 2 MW, 9 km away
Largest plants near Celaya
- Salamanca: Oil, 550 MW, 39 km away
- Cogeneración Salamanca: Natural gas, 393 MW, 39 km away
- Pemex-Refinación, Ing. Antonio M. Amor: Oil, 143 MW, 40 km away
- planta solar fotovoltaica San Miguel de Allende: Solar, 30 MW, 47 km away
- Compañía Electrica Carolina: Hydro, 3 MW, 37 km away
Largest plants near Irapuato
- Salamanca: Oil, 550 MW, 36 km away
- Cogeneración Salamanca: Natural gas, 393 MW, 36 km away
- Pemex-Refinación, Ing. Antonio M. Amor: Oil, 143 MW, 35 km away
Data centers
3 data center sites on the map.
- Operators with the most sites: ODATA (2)
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)
Places gazetteer (cities, airports, regions): Natural Earth populated places; OurAirports; Natural Earth admin-1; Wattlas curated places. License: Public domain
Data centers: Epoch AI (CC BY); OpenStreetMap via the public Overpass API (ODbL, © OpenStreetMap contributors); Ringmast4r Global-Data-Center-Map (custom permissive license, attribution required); 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; 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; generation within 20 km from the previous publish's plants; 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: CC BY; ODbL; custom permissive; 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