Oil power plant in Veracruz, Mexico. Approximate location 21.0151, -97.3334.
OilVeracruzMexicoCCGT · HRSGSiemens Energy: not foundConstructionCO₂ modelled
Adolfo López Mateos (Tuxpan) is a 2,100 MW oil power station in Veracruz, Mexico. It ranks #3 of 366 Mexico power plants by installed capacity. Its modelled annual emissions are 3,084,600 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE), equivalent to about 719k cars driven for a year. In context, oil supplies about 9.4% of Mexico's electricity; the national grid averages 474 gCO₂/kWh (25.9% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id MEX0001766.
Known, modelled and calculated values are kept separate. Missing fields are shown as unavailable.
The capacity and/or fuel fields on this page include a source-backed provenance label from GEM, an official registry, Wikidata, OSM, or a cross-source match.
capacity: GEM · 2026 · L100000408661; fuel: WRI GPPD
At 2,100 MW, Adolfo López Mateos (Tuxpan) is well above the median oil plant in Mexico (300 MW). Technically it is described as CCGT; combined-cycle with a heat-recovery steam generator (HRSG); Siemens Energy: not found. Its current lifecycle status is “Construction” — so it is not yet, or no longer, generating at full output. Oil-fired plants burn heavy fuel oil or diesel, usually as peaking or backup capacity on islands and grids without gas pipelines; high fuel cost keeps their utilisation low.
Capacity comparison computed from the WRI Global Power Plant Database; fuel-type context is general engineering background.
This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:
Equivalencies via US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies; modelled emissions from Climate TRACE.
The #1 largest oil power plant of 27 in Mexico by capacity.
Mexico has 27 oil power plants in this dataset, together about 12,022 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 21.0151, -97.3334 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Adolfo López Mateos (Tuxpan) is a 2,100 MW oil power plant in Veracruz, Mexico, Construction 1991.
Adolfo López Mateos (Tuxpan) has modelled emissions of about 3,084,600 tonnes of CO₂ per year (Climate TRACE).
