Power plants and the grid in Veracruz
Veracruz has 50 power plants with 6.6 GW of capacity, oil the largest share at 2.4 GW.
Capacity by fuel
50 power plants with 6.6 GW of capacity, planned generators left out.
- Oil: 2.4 GW from 3 plants (36%)
- Natural gas: 2.2 GW from 8 plants (33%)
- Nuclear: 1.6 GW from 1 plant (24%)
- Biomass: 296 MW from 25 plants (4%)
- Hydro: 156 MW from 13 plants (2%)
Largest plants
- Adolfo López Mateos (Tuxpan): Oil, 2.1 GW
- Laguna Verde: Nuclear, 1.6 GW
- Tuxpan II: Natural gas, 495 MW
- Tuxpan V: Natural gas, 495 MW
- Dos Bocas: Natural gas, 452 MW
- Braskem Idesa: Natural gas, 176 MW
- Pemex-Petroquímica, Complejo Petroquímico Morelos: Natural gas, 172 MW
- Pemex-Petroquímica, Complejo Petroquímico Cangrejera: Natural gas, 164 MW
- Cogeneración Infra: Oil, 145 MW
- Cogeneración De Energía Limpia De Cosoleacaque: Natural gas, 118 MW
Largest plants near Veracruz
- Dos Bocas: Natural gas, 452 MW, 10 km away
- Ingenio La Gloria: Biomass, 22 MW, 38 km away
- Ingenio El Modelo: Biomass, 9 MW, 31 km away
Largest plants near Xalapa
- Minas: Hydro, 15 MW, 30 km away
- Azucarera La Concepción: Biomass, 4 MW, 9 km away
- Ingenio Mahuixtlan: Biomass, 3 MW, 9 km away
- Texolo: Hydro, 2 MW, 16 km away
Largest plants near Orizaba
- Tuxpango: Hydro, 36 MW, 10 km away
- Electricidad Del Golfo: Hydro, 35 MW, 29 km away
- Central Motzorongo: Biomass, 20 MW, 48 km away
- Ingenio San Nicolás: Biomass, 15 MW, 25 km away
- Procesamiento Energetico Mexicano: Hydro, 11 MW, 7 km away
Largest plants near Coatzacoalcos
- Braskem Idesa: Natural gas, 176 MW, 8 km away
- Pemex-Petroquímica, Complejo Petroquímico Morelos: Natural gas, 172 MW, 6 km away
- Pemex-Petroquímica, Complejo Petroquímico Cangrejera: Natural gas, 164 MW, 7 km away
- Cogeneración Infra: Oil, 145 MW, 6 km away
- Cogeneración De Energía Limpia De Cosoleacaque: Natural gas, 118 MW, 24 km away
Largest plants near Poza Rica de Hidalgo
- Tuxpan II: Natural gas, 495 MW, 39 km away
- Tuxpan V: Natural gas, 495 MW, 40 km away
- Poza Rica: Oil, 117 MW, 3 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