Gas power plant in Sonora, Mexico. Approximate location 30.5219, -109.6197.
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La Caridad power station is a 516 MW gas power station in Sonora, Mexico. It is operated by Minera México. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 581,388 homes (estimated). It ranks #44 of 335 Mexico power plants by installed capacity. Its measured emissions of 1,267,880 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE) are equivalent to about 295,543 cars driven for a year. In context, gas supplies about 61.6% 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 CT-5946.
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 Minera México.
This gas plant burns natural gas in a turbine — often in a combined-cycle setup — to generate electricity. It sits in a cold semi-arid steppe climate (Köppen BSk) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 30.5°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 54% 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: 28/100 — 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.
A gas turbine here also runs ~2% below its ISO (15°C) rating at this annual mean (typical CCGT curve, 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.
The #16 largest gas power plant of 80 in Mexico by capacity.
Mexico has 80 gas power plants in this dataset, together about 29,600 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 30.5219, -109.6197 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
