Oil power plant in Quintana Roo, Mexico. Approximate location 21.0689, -86.8469.
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NIZUC is a 88 MW oil power plant in Quintana Roo, Mexico. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 66,075 homes (estimated). It ranks #166 of 335 Mexico power plants by installed capacity. Its measured emissions of 102,614 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE) are equivalent to about 23,919 cars driven for a year. In context, oil supplies about 9.4% 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-6016.
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).
This oil plant burns oil or diesel to drive turbines or reciprocating engines. It sits in a tropical savanna climate (Köppen Aw) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 21.1°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 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.
The #25 largest oil power plant of 26 in Mexico by capacity.
Mexico has 26 oil power plants in this dataset, together about 11,972 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 21.0689, -86.8469 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
