Coal power plant in Coahuila, Mexico. Approximate location 28.4844, -100.6897.
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José López Portillo (Río Escondido) is a 1,200 MW coal power station in Coahuila, Mexico. It is operated by CFE. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 1,501,714 homes (estimated). It ranks #11 of 335 Mexico power plants by installed capacity. Its measured emissions of 2,991,900 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE) are equivalent to about 697,413 cars driven for a year. In context, coal supplies about 3.0% 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 MEX0001771.
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 coal plant burns coal to raise high-pressure steam that spins a turbine-generator. It sits in a hot semi-arid steppe climate (Köppen BSh) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 28.5°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 76% 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: 22/100 — 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 #3 largest coal power plant of 3 in Mexico by capacity.
Mexico has 3 coal power plants in this dataset, together about 5,378 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 28.4844, -100.6897 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
