Power plants and the grid in Oaxaca
Oaxaca has 32 power plants with 3.4 GW of capacity, wind the largest share at 2.9 GW.
Capacity by fuel
32 power plants with 3.4 GW of capacity, planned generators left out.
- Wind: 2.9 GW from 26 plants (85%)
- Hydro: 357 MW from 2 plants (11%)
- Oil: 115 MW from 1 plant (3%)
- Biomass: 51 MW from 3 plants (2%)
Largest plants
- Energia Eolica del Sur: Wind, 396 MW
- Temascal: Hydro, 354 MW
- Eurus: Wind, 251 MW
- Fuerza y Energía Bii Hioxo: Wind, 234 MW
- Eoliatec del Istmo: Wind, 164 MW
- Eoliatec Del Pacífico: Wind, 160 MW
- Desarrollos Eólicos Mexicanos De Oaxaca: Wind, 138 MW
- Pemex-Refinación, Refinería Ing. Antonio Dovalí Jaime: Oil, 115 MW
- La Venta III: Wind, 103 MW
- La Mata: Wind, 102 MW
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
States and provinces (simplified polygons): Natural Earth 10m admin-1. License: Public domain