Power plants and the grid in New Mexico
New Mexico has 173 power plants with 17.5 GW of capacity, wind the largest share at 8.1 GW. The map shows 23 data centers in New Mexico. Its interconnection queue holds 143 active requests for 26.9 GW.
Capacity by fuel
173 power plants with 17.5 GW of capacity, planned generators left out.
- Wind: 8.1 GW from 31 plants (46%)
- Solar: 4 GW from 109 plants (23%)
- Natural gas: 3.2 GW from 19 plants (18%)
- Coal: 1.5 GW from 1 plant (9%)
- Battery storage: 665 MW from 7 plants (4%)
- Hydro: 83 MW from 4 plants (under 1%)
- Oil: 17 MW from 1 plant (under 1%)
- Geothermal: 9 MW from 1 plant (under 1%)
Largest plants
- SunZia Wind South: Wind, 2.6 GW
- Four Corners: Coal, 1.5 GW
- SunZia Wind North: Wind, 1.1 GW
- Hobbs Generating Station: Natural gas, 578 MW
- Luna Energy Facility: Natural gas, 559 MW
- Sagamore Wind: Wind, 522 MW
- Arroyo Solar Energy Storage Hybrid: Solar, 450 MW
- Cunningham: Natural gas, 390 MW
- Red Cloud Wind LLC: Wind, 350 MW
- Clines Corners Wind Farm LLC: Wind, 325 MW
Largest plants near Albuquerque
- Atrisco Energy Storage: Battery storage, 300 MW, 27 km away
- Atrisco Solar LLC: Solar, 300 MW, 22 km away
- Sky Ranch Solar: Solar, 240 MW, 38 km away
- Quail Ranch Solar and BESS: Solar, 200 MW, 22 km away
- TAG: Solar, 198 MW, 27 km away
Planned and under construction
25 generators planned, under construction or testing, 3.6 GW in all, not counted above.
- Solar: 2.2 GW
- Natural gas: 737 MW
- Battery storage: 400 MW
- Wind: 190 MW
Grid operators
- SPP (ISO or RTO): 35 plants
- CAISO (ISO or RTO): 2 plants
- Public Service Co. of New Mexico (PNM): 106 plants
- El Paso Electric (EPE): 19 plants
- WACM: 6 plants
- GRIS: 2 plants
- Tucson Electric Power Company (TEPC): 2 plants
- Arizona Public Service (AZPS): 1 plant
Data centers
23 data center sites on the map.
- Bernalillo County: 11 sites
- Valencia County: 7 sites
- Doña Ana County: 3 sites
- Operators with the most sites: Meta (7), bigbyte.cc (1), Centersquare (formerly Evoque) (1), CenturyLink (1), Compass Datacenters (1), Molina Healthcare (1), Oracle / OpenAI (1), Oso Grande (1), Pacific Office Auromation (1), PRISM Technologies (1)
Interconnection queue
143 active requests to connect 26.9 GW of new generation and storage, and 15 suspended requests, from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's Queued Up data.
- Solar: 15.8 GW in 78 requests
- Battery storage: 6.1 GW in 39 requests
- Wind: 3.9 GW in 17 requests
- Natural gas: 598 MW in 5 requests
- Other: 460 MW in 2 requests
- Geothermal: 58 MW in 2 requests
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
Interconnection queue requests: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and GridTracker, "Queued Up". License: CC BY 4.0
States and provinces (simplified polygons): Natural Earth 10m admin-1. License: Public domain