Power plants and the grid in Nuevo León
Nuevo León has 19 power plants with 6.5 GW of capacity, natural gas the largest share at 5.5 GW. The map shows 4 data centers in Nuevo León.
Capacity by fuel
19 power plants with 6.5 GW of capacity, planned generators left out.
- Natural gas: 5.5 GW from 8 plants (84%)
- Wind: 961 MW from 6 plants (15%)
- Solar: 44 MW from 2 plants (1%)
- Biomass: 28 MW from 3 plants (under 1%)
Largest plants
- Centrales de ciclo combinado Escobedo y El Carmen: Natural gas, 1.7 GW
- Techgen: Natural gas, 1 GW
- Los Ramones Energy Center: Natural gas, 768 MW
- Iberdrola Energía Monterrey: Natural gas, 659 MW
- Huinalá II: Natural gas, 471 MW
- Huinalá (CC): Natural gas, 378 MW
- Tractebel Energía de Monterrey: Natural gas, 284 MW
- Parque Eólico Dolores: Wind, 269 MW
- Parque Eólico El Mezquite: Wind, 250 MW
- Parque Eólico Fenicias: Wind, 168 MW
Largest plants near Monterrey
- Centrales de ciclo combinado Escobedo y El Carmen: Natural gas, 1.7 GW, 23 km away
- Techgen: Natural gas, 1 GW, 36 km away
- Iberdrola Energía Monterrey: Natural gas, 659 MW, 26 km away
- Huinalá II: Natural gas, 471 MW, 22 km away
- Huinalá (CC): Natural gas, 378 MW, 23 km away
Data centers
4 data center sites on the map.
- Operators with the most sites: Equinix (2), KIO (1), Triara (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