Power plants and the grid in Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico has 67 power plants with 5.9 GW of capacity, oil the largest share at 3.5 GW. The map shows 5 data centers in Puerto Rico.
Capacity by fuel
67 power plants with 5.9 GW of capacity, planned generators left out.
- Oil: 3.5 GW from 29 plants (59%)
- Natural gas: 1.6 GW from 10 plants (27%)
- Coal: 454 MW from 1 plant (8%)
- Solar: 190 MW from 16 plants (3%)
- Wind: 101 MW from 2 plants (2%)
- Hydro: 98 MW from 7 plants (2%)
- Biomass: 5 MW from 2 plants (under 1%)
Largest plants
- Aguirre Plant: Oil, 1.5 GW
- Costa Sur Plant: Natural gas, 967 MW
- Central San Juan Plant: Oil, 784 MW
- EcoElectrica: Natural gas, 584 MW
- Palo Seco Plant: Oil, 479 MW
- AES Puerto Rico: Coal, 454 MW
- Cambalache Plant: Oil, 242 MW
- Mayaguez Plant: Oil, 220 MW
- Pattern Santa Isabel LLC: Wind, 75 MW
- Oriana Energy Hybrid: Solar, 67 MW
Planned and under construction
3 generators planned, under construction or testing, 177 MW in all, not counted above.
- Solar: 177 MW
Data centers
5 data center sites on the map.
- Operators with the most sites: Critical Hub Networks (3), Claro (1), Microsoft (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)
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