Gas power plant in Baja California, Mexico. Approximate location 32.490833, -116.731111.
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La Herradura mobile power station is a 176.4 MW gas power station in Baja California, Mexico. It is operated by Comisión Federal de Electricidad EPE [100%]. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 199k homes (estimated). It ranks #144 of 366 Mexico power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2025, it is around 1 years old — recently built. 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 GOGPT_laherraduramobile_mexico.
Known, modelled and calculated values are kept separate. Missing fields are shown as unavailable.
The capacity and/or fuel fields on this page include a source-backed provenance label from GEM, an official registry, Wikidata, OSM, or a cross-source match.
capacity: GEM · 2026 · L100001056340; fuel: GEM GOGPT
At 176.4 MW, La Herradura mobile power station is below the median gas plant in Mexico (368 MW). Technically it is described as OCGT. Gas plants burn natural gas either in open-cycle turbines for fast peaking, or in combined-cycle units that recover exhaust heat in an HRSG to reach roughly 55–62% efficiency — the cleanest-burning fossil option.
Capacity comparison computed from the WRI Global Power Plant Database; fuel-type context is general engineering background.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by Comisión Federal de Electricidad EPE [100%].
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 32.5°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.
Climate zone & typical temperatures: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid).
For a plant’s outdoor hardware — heat-recovery steam generators (HRSG), expansion joints, valves, flanges and their insulation — the local climate sets how fast unprotected steel and coatings degrade. This site sits in a benign, low-corrosion environment (estimated ISO 9223 class C1 — Very low), with dust abrasion the leading environmental stress.
Higher environmental severity is exactly where protective removable insulation pays back most: a sheltered micro-climate slows corrosion, UV and thermal-cycling damage and extends outdoor hardware service life. This is an indicative site-climate context — not a condition assessment of any specific plant or operator.
Indicative estimate via the ISO 9223:2012 informative method (atmospheric corrosivity from temperature, time-of-wetness and airborne salinity), using WorldClim climate normals, the Köppen-Geiger class and coast distance. Indicative, not a measured corrosion rate.
The #96 largest gas power plant of 129 in Mexico by capacity.
Mexico has 129 gas power plants in this dataset, together about 58,538 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 32.490833, -116.731111 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
La Herradura mobile power station is a 176.4 MW gas power plant in Baja California, Mexico, commissioned in 2025.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 198,676 homes (estimated).
La Herradura mobile power station is operated by Comisión Federal de Electricidad EPE [100%].
