Other power plant in Sonora, Mexico. Approximate location 27.9261, -110.7818.
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Empalme I power station is a 1,482 MW other power station in Sonora, Mexico. It is operated by Comisión Federal de Electricidad EPE. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 1,112,770 homes (estimated). It ranks #7 of 335 Mexico power plants by installed capacity. Its measured emissions of 3,048,900 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE) are equivalent to about 710,699 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-5922.
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 Comisión Federal de Electricidad EPE. All plants by this company →
This other plant generates electricity for the grid. It sits in a hot desert climate (Köppen BWh) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 27.9°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 99% 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 #2 largest other power plant of 24 in Mexico by capacity.
Mexico has 24 other power plants in this dataset, together about 10,510 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 27.9261, -110.7818 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
