Power plants and the grid in México
México has 9 power plants with 1.9 GW of capacity, natural gas the largest share at 1.2 GW. The map shows 10 data centers in México.
Capacity by fuel
9 power plants with 1.9 GW of capacity, planned generators left out.
- Natural gas: 1.2 GW from 3 plants (65%)
- Oil: 450 MW from 1 plant (24%)
- Solar: 148 MW from 2 plants (8%)
- Hydro: 72 MW from 3 plants (4%)
Largest plants
- EVM II: Natural gas, 590 MW
- Valle de México (CC): Natural gas, 549 MW
- Valle de México (Vapor): Oil, 450 MW
- Parque Solar Guajiro: Solar, 130 MW
- EVM I: Natural gas, 100 MW
- Tingambato: Hydro, 42 MW
- Santa Bárbara: Hydro, 23 MW
- Iusasol 1: Solar, 18 MW
- Alameda: Hydro, 7 MW
Largest plants near Toluca
- Iusasol 1: Solar, 18 MW, 36 km away
Largest plants near Nezahualcoyotl
- Valle de México (CC): Natural gas, 549 MW, 24 km away
- Valle de México (Vapor): Oil, 450 MW, 24 km away
Largest plants near Zumpango
- EVM II: Natural gas, 590 MW, 46 km away
- Valle de México (CC): Natural gas, 549 MW, 26 km away
- Valle de México (Vapor): Oil, 450 MW, 26 km away
- EVM I: Natural gas, 100 MW, 47 km away
Data centers
10 data center sites on the map.
- Operators with the most sites: KIO (5), KIO Networks (1), Neutrona (1), Nextstream (1), Scala (1)
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