Power plants and the grid in Tamaulipas
Tamaulipas has 21 power plants with 5.4 GW of capacity, natural gas the largest share at 2.5 GW.
Capacity by fuel
21 power plants with 5.4 GW of capacity, planned generators left out.
- Natural gas: 2.5 GW from 5 plants (46%)
- Wind: 2 GW from 11 plants (36%)
- Oil: 929 MW from 3 plants (17%)
- Biomass: 13 MW from 2 plants (under 1%)
Largest plants
- Altamira V: Natural gas, 1.1 GW
- Altamira: Oil, 500 MW
- Altamira II: Natural gas, 495 MW
- Río Bravo II (Anáhuac): Natural gas, 495 MW
- Parque Eólico Reynosa: Wind, 424 MW
- Parque Eólico Mesa La Paz: Wind, 306 MW
- Emilio Portes Gil (Río Bravo) (Vapor): Oil, 300 MW
- Parque Eólico Tres Mesas I-II-III-IV: Wind, 294 MW
- Emilio Portes Gil (Río Bravo) (CC): Natural gas, 211 MW
- Parque Eólico San Carlos: Wind, 198 MW
Largest plants near Tampico
- Altamira V: Natural gas, 1.1 GW, 23 km away
- Altamira: Oil, 500 MW, 21 km away
- Altamira II: Natural gas, 495 MW, 22 km away
- Enertek: Natural gas, 168 MW, 9 km away
- Pemex-Refinación, Refinería Francisco I. Madero: Oil, 129 MW, 8 km away
Largest plants near Matamoros
- Río Bravo II (Anáhuac): Natural gas, 495 MW, 30 km away
Largest plants near Reynosa
- Parque Eólico Reynosa: Wind, 424 MW, 44 km away
- Emilio Portes Gil (Río Bravo) (Vapor): Oil, 300 MW, 26 km away
- Emilio Portes Gil (Río Bravo) (CC): Natural gas, 211 MW, 26 km away
- Paruqe Eólico El Cortijo: Wind, 168 MW, 35 km away
- Parque Eólico Santa Cruz: Wind, 139 MW, 44 km away
Largest plants near Ciudad Victoria
- Parque Eólico Tres Mesas I-II-III-IV: Wind, 294 MW, 40 km away
- Proyecto de Energía Eólica Vicente Guerrero: Wind, 118 MW, 33 km away
- Parque Eólico Mesa El Melon: Wind, 99 MW, 30 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