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- Transmission Line80,968
- Power Plant32,429
- Substation / Converter7,614
- Oil & Gas Field7,055
- Coal / Uranium Mine5,382
- Pipeline4,951
- Cement Plant3,513
- Data Centre3,283
- Iron & Steel Plant1,293
- LNG Terminal1,198
- Grid Storage965
- Iron Ore Mine949
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- Interconnector704
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- Refinery279
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- Oil / Commodity Contract19
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Power Plant
José López Portillo power station
11th-largest power plant in Mexico of 311 · top 12% worldwide (#3,449 of 29,849)
- Owner
- Comisión Federal de Electricidad EPE
- Status
- operating
- Capacity
- 1,200 MW
- Fuel
- coal
- Commissioned
- 1982
Comparable power plants · Mexico · 311 ranked
- #1Manzanillo (Manuel Álvarez Moreno) power station2.9 GW · gas
- #9Carbón II power station1.4 GW · coal
- #10Puerto Peñasco Solar Project1.3 GW · solar
- #11José López Portillo power station1.2 GW · coal
- #12El Infiernillo hydroelectric plant1.2 GW · hydro
- #13Tuxpan III and IV power station1.2 GW · gas
Grid connection · within 50 km
- Nearest substation
- Carbón II
- Its voltage
- 400 kV
- Distance
- 398 m
- Strongest line nearby
- 400 kV
- Substations in range
- 2
Mapped grid infrastructure from OpenStreetMap, whose coverage is excellent in some regions and sparse in others. Nothing shown here means nothing is mappednearby — not that the site is unconnected. Lines are matched on a segment’s midpoint, so a corridor passing directly overhead can be missed; this under-reports rather than invents.
Co-located infrastructure · within 25 km
- Carbón II power station21 m · Power Plant · 1.4 GW · coal
- Carbón II398 m · Substation / Converter
- 400 kV line959 m · Transmission Line
- Río Escondido1.8 km · Substation / Converter
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SOURCE: Global Energy Monitor · Global Integrated Power (CC BY 4.0)