Oil power plant in Texas, Mexico. Approximate location 31.3314, -106.486.
OilTexasMexicoCO₂ reported
Benito Juárez (Samalayuca) is a 316 MW oil power station in Texas, Mexico. It is operated by CFE. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 237,270 homes (estimated). It ranks #81 of 335 Mexico power plants by installed capacity. Its measured emissions of 2,767,600 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE) are equivalent to about 645,128 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 MEX0001818.
This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:
Equivalencies via US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies; emissions reported to Climate TRACE.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by CFE. All plants by this company →
This oil plant burns oil or diesel to drive turbines or reciprocating engines. It sits in a cold semi-arid steppe climate (Köppen BSk) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 31.3°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.
Monthly mean temperature
Heating degree-days here run 38% below the median power plant in this dataset — a proxy for how much extra energy heated equipment must replace through its surfaces in winter.
Climate heat-demand index: 34/100 — this site sits in the mid third of the power plants we cover by heating degree-days.
In colder climates, uninsulated hot equipment (boilers, turbines, valves, steam lines) loses proportionally more heat to ambient air — exactly the loss Inzonex modular insulation is designed to cut.
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.
The #13 largest oil power plant of 26 in Mexico by capacity.
Mexico has 26 oil power plants in this dataset, together about 11,972 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 31.3314, -106.486 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
