Power plants and the grid in Zacatecas
Zacatecas has 5 power plants with 606 MW of capacity, solar the largest share at 370 MW.
Capacity by fuel
5 power plants with 606 MW of capacity, planned generators left out.
- Solar: 370 MW from 2 plants (61%)
- Wind: 236 MW from 3 plants (39%)
Largest plants
- Parque Fotovoltaico Tuli y Helios: Solar, 300 MW
- Parque Eólico La Bufa: Wind, 130 MW
- Planta Fotovoltaica Sol de Zacatecas: Solar, 70 MW
- Parque Eólico Mesa Morenos: Wind, 66 MW
- Parque eólico de Vientos del Altiplano: Wind, 40 MW
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)
States and provinces (simplified polygons): Natural Earth 10m admin-1. License: Public domain