Other power plant in San Luis Potosi, Mexico. Approximate location 22.0691, -98.8467.
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AES Tamuín (Golfo-Peñoles) power plant is a 550 MW other power station in San Luis Potosi, Mexico. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 413k homes (estimated). It ranks #57 of 366 Mexico power plants by installed capacity. Its modelled annual emissions are 811,600 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE), equivalent to about 189k cars driven for a year. In context, the national grid averages 474 gCO₂/kWh (25.9% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id CT-5963.
Known, modelled and calculated values are kept separate. Missing fields are shown as unavailable.
The capacity and fuel fields on this page are source-record values from the upstream open dataset. They are useful for identification and ranking, but they have not been upgraded to a 2026 registry/GEM-location verified value.
capacity: Climate TRACE source-record capacity (modelled/legacy); fuel: Primary fuel not stated in available source record; classified as Other/industrial-mixed pending country registry match
At 550 MW, AES Tamuín (Golfo-Peñoles) power plant is well above the median other plant in Mexico (184 MW). This facility converts its energy source into electricity for the grid; its capacity, fuel type and location determine its role in the national power mix.
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.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
This other plant generates electricity for the grid. It sits in a tropical savanna climate (Köppen Aw) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 22.1°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.
Monthly mean temperature
This site has effectively no heating season (tropical/equatorial climate), so winter heat loss is not the driver here. The thermal concern shifts to year-round process heat and humidity/heat-driven corrosion of hot equipment.
Climate normals: WorldClim 2.1 (1970–2000 monthly normals, 10 arc-min, CC BY 4.0); zone: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid). Degree-days & heat-demand index computed by PowerAtlas — a modelled heat-demand proxy, not a measured site figure.
For a plant’s outdoor hardware — heat-recovery steam generators (HRSG), expansion joints, valves, flanges and their insulation — the local climate sets how fast unprotected steel and coatings degrade. This site sits in a corrosive environment (estimated ISO 9223 class C4 — High), with humidity / wetness the leading environmental stress.
Higher environmental severity is exactly where protective removable insulation pays back most: a sheltered micro-climate slows corrosion, UV and thermal-cycling damage and extends outdoor hardware service life. This is an indicative site-climate context — not a condition assessment of any specific plant or operator.
Indicative estimate via the ISO 9223:2012 informative method (atmospheric corrosivity from temperature, time-of-wetness and airborne salinity), using WorldClim climate normals, the Köppen-Geiger class and coast distance. Indicative, not a measured corrosion rate.
The #1 largest other power plant of 6 in Mexico by capacity.
Mexico has 6 other power plants in this dataset, together about 1,252 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 22.0691, -98.8467 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
AES Tamuín (Golfo-Peñoles) power plant is a 550 MW source-record other power plant in San Luis Potosi, Mexico.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 412,971 homes (estimated).
AES Tamuín (Golfo-Peñoles) power plant has modelled emissions of about 811,600 tonnes of CO₂ per year (Climate TRACE).
