Power plants and the grid in Jalisco
Jalisco has 26 power plants with 2.2 GW of capacity, natural gas the largest share at 874 MW. The map shows 1 data center in Jalisco.
Capacity by fuel
26 power plants with 2.2 GW of capacity, planned generators left out.
- Natural gas: 874 MW from 1 plant (40%)
- Solar: 646 MW from 6 plants (29%)
- Hydro: 432 MW from 10 plants (20%)
- Wind: 179 MW from 2 plants (8%)
- Biomass: 77 MW from 7 plants (3%)
Largest plants
- Central de ciclo combinado Tierra Mojada: Natural gas, 874 MW
- Potrero Solar: Solar, 270 MW
- Valentín Gómez Farías (Agua Prieta): Hydro, 240 MW
- Las Viborillas Solar Farm: Solar, 130 MW
- Las Viborillas Solar Farm: Solar, 130 MW
- Parque Eólico Palo Alto: Wind, 129 MW
- Las Viborillas: Solar, 100 MW
- Manuel M. Diéguez (Santa Rosa): Hydro, 70 MW
- Colimilla: Hydro, 51 MW
- Los Altos: Wind, 50 MW
Largest plants near Guadalajara
- Central de ciclo combinado Tierra Mojada: Natural gas, 874 MW, 31 km away
- Valentín Gómez Farías (Agua Prieta): Hydro, 240 MW, 11 km away
- Manuel M. Diéguez (Santa Rosa): Hydro, 70 MW, 46 km away
- Colimilla: Hydro, 51 MW, 13 km away
- Tala Electric: Biomass, 25 MW, 39 km away
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