Power plants and the grid in Puebla
Puebla has 13 power plants with 1.4 GW of capacity, hydro the largest share at 447 MW.
Capacity by fuel
13 power plants with 1.4 GW of capacity, planned generators left out.
- Hydro: 447 MW from 7 plants (32%)
- Natural gas: 382 MW from 1 plant (27%)
- Wind: 287 MW from 2 plants (21%)
- Solar: 200 MW from 1 plant (14%)
- Geothermal: 69 MW from 1 plant (5%)
- Biomass: 15 MW from 1 plant (1%)
Largest plants
- San Lorenzo Potencia: Natural gas, 382 MW
- Parque Eólico Pier 4: Wind, 221 MW
- Mazatepec: Hydro, 220 MW
- Parque fotovoltaico Cuyoaco: Solar, 200 MW
- Necaxa: Hydro, 109 MW
- Los Humeros: Geothermal, 69 MW
- Pier II Quecholac Felipe Ángeles: Wind, 66 MW
- Tepexic: Hydro, 39 MW
- Patla: Hydro, 37 MW
- Compañía de Energía Mexicana: Hydro, 36 MW
Largest plants near Puebla
- San Lorenzo Potencia: Natural gas, 382 MW, 9 km away
- Portezuelos I y II: Hydro, 4 MW, 21 km away
- Portezuelo I: Hydro, 2 MW, 22 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
States and provinces (simplified polygons): Natural Earth 10m admin-1. License: Public domain