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Camargo

Solar power plant in Chihuahua, Mexico. Approximate location 27.652, -105.076.

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Camargo is a 30 MW solar power plant in Chihuahua, Mexico. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 12,764 homes (estimated). It ranks #205 of 335 Mexico power plants by installed capacity. As a non-combustion source, it has no direct CO₂ emissions from generation. In context, solar supplies about 7.4% of Mexico's electricity; the national grid averages 474 gCO₂/kWh (25.9% low-carbon) (2025).

30MW installed capacity
12,764homes powered (est.)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WKS0064430.

Capacity vs largest solar plants in Mexico

Villanueva I: 330 MW330Villanueva…Puerto Libertad: 320 MW320Puerto Lib…Solem: 287 MW287SolemVillanueva III: 250 MW250Villanueva…Don José: 207 MW207Don JoséPotosí Iberdrola: 170 MW170Potosí Ibe…Solem I: 150 MW150Solem ISolem II: 140 MW140Solem II

Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).

Local climate & thermal context

This solar plant converts sunlight directly into electricity with photovoltaic panels. It sits in a hot semi-arid steppe climate (Köppen BSh) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 27.7°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

19.3°Cannual mean temp
758heating degree-days (base 18°C)
1,229cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
1,330 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 10 °CJF: 13 °CFM: 16 °CMA: 20 °CAM: 24 °CMJ: 27 °CJJ: 26 °CJA: 25 °CAS: 23 °CSO: 19 °CON: 14 °CND: 11 °CD27 °C

Heating degree-days here run 69% 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: 24/100 — this site sits in the bottom 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.

Solar PV loses ~0.35%/°C above 25°C cell temperature — roughly 0.8% at warm-season highs here (estimate).

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.

How it compares & nearby plants

The #17 largest solar power plant of 29 in Mexico by capacity.

Mexico has 29 solar power plants in this dataset, together about 2,671 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 27.652, -105.076 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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