Biomass power plant in Veracruz, Mexico. Approximate location 18.3734, -95.7425.
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Cuenca del Papaloapan is a 24 MW biomass power plant in Veracruz, Mexico. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 33,313 homes (estimated). It ranks #216 of 335 Mexico power plants by installed capacity. In context, biomass supplies about 1.7% 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 MEX0006656.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
This biomass plant burns organic material (wood, residues) to raise steam for a turbine. It sits in a tropical savanna climate (Köppen Aw) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 18.4°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 100% 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: 13/100 — 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.
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 #9 largest biomass power plant of 74 in Mexico by capacity.
Mexico has 74 biomass power plants in this dataset, together about 949 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 18.3734, -95.7425 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
