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Ingenio Pánuco power station

Biomass power plant in Veracruz, Mexico. Approximate location 22.0188, -98.1806.

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Ingenio Pánuco power station is a 69 MW biomass power plant in Veracruz, Mexico. It is operated by Grupo Pantaleón. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 95,121 homes (estimated). It ranks #175 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).

69MW installed capacity
95,121homes powered (est.)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id CT-6040.

Capacity vs largest biomass plants in Mexico

Ingenio Pánuco power station: 69 MW69Ingenio Pá…Ingenio San Miguel del Naranjo: 49 MW49Ingenio Sa…Piasa Coogeneracion: 40 MW40Piasa Coog…Bioeléctrica de Occidente power station: 35 MW35Bioeléctri…PTAR Atotonilco power station: 33 MW33PTAR Atoto…San Nicolás Sugar power station: 32 MW32San Nicolá…Santa Rosalía: 25 MW25Santa Rosa…Tala Electric: 25 MW25Tala Elect…

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

Owner

Operated by Grupo Pantaleón.

Local climate & thermal context

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 22.0°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

24.4°Cannual mean temp
0heating degree-days (base 18°C)
2,345cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
13 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 18 °CJF: 20 °CFM: 23 °CMA: 26 °CAM: 28 °CMJ: 29 °CJJ: 28 °CJA: 28 °CAS: 27 °CSO: 25 °CON: 22 °CND: 19 °CD29 °C

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.

How it compares & nearby plants

The #1 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.

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Location

Coordinates 22.0188, -98.1806 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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