Power plants and the grid in Sonora
Sonora has 29 power plants with 6.2 GW of capacity, natural gas the largest share at 3.1 GW. The map shows 1 data center in Sonora.
Capacity by fuel
29 power plants with 6.2 GW of capacity, planned generators left out.
- Natural gas: 3.1 GW from 6 plants (50%)
- Solar: 1.8 GW from 16 plants (29%)
- Oil: 1.1 GW from 2 plants (18%)
- Hydro: 183 MW from 4 plants (3%)
- Wind: 2 MW from 1 plant (under 1%)
Largest plants
- Central Empalme I y II: Natural gas, 1.6 GW
- Puerto Libertad: Oil, 632 MW
- México Generadora De Energía: Natural gas, 530 MW
- Carlos Rodríguez Rivero (Guaymas II): Oil, 484 MW
- Puerto Libertad: Solar, 320 MW
- Central de ciclo combinado Fuerza y energía Hermosillo: Natural gas, 283 MW
- Naco Nogales: Natural gas, 258 MW
- Fuerza y Energía de Hermosillo: Natural gas, 250 MW
- Parque Solar Navojoa: Solar, 250 MW
- Hermosillo: Natural gas, 227 MW
Largest plants near Hermosillo
- Central de ciclo combinado Fuerza y energía Hermosillo: Natural gas, 283 MW, 14 km away
- Fuerza y Energía de Hermosillo: Natural gas, 250 MW, 7 km away
- Hermosillo: Natural gas, 227 MW, 14 km away
- Parque fotovoltaico Hermosillo: Solar, 100 MW, 18 km away
- Parque Solar Mi Ranchito Sur: Solar, 25 MW, 23 km away
Largest plants near Mazatlán
- Plutarco Elías Calles (El Novillo): Hydro, 135 MW, 48 km away
Largest plants near Ciudad Obregon
- Oviáchic: Hydro, 19 MW, 40 km away
- Central Hidroeléctrica Álvaro Obregón: Hydro, 19 MW, 40 km away
- Planta Solar Yoreme: Solar, 1 MW, 37 km away
Data centers
1 data center site on the map.
- Operators with the most sites: KIO (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