North Coast nuclear power plant — Puerto Rico

North Coast nuclear power plant is a 583 MW nuclear power station in Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico. It ranks #5 of 10 Puerto Rico power plants by installed capacity. As a non-combustion source, it has no direct CO₂ emissions from generation.

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id GEM_nuc_northcoast_puert.

Data provenance

Source of the capacity and fuel values:

capacity: GEM Global Nuclear Power Tracker September 2025 unit-status sum (cancelled); fuel: GEM GNPT

In context: how this plant compares

Technically it is described as pressurized water reactor. Its current lifecycle status is “Cancelled” — so it is not yet, or no longer, generating at full output. Nuclear plants split uranium to raise steam with no direct CO₂; they run as steady baseload with very high capacity factors and the longest operating lifetimes of any thermal plant.

Capacity comparison computed from the WRI Global Power Plant Database; fuel-type context is general engineering background.

How it compares & nearby plants

The #1 largest nuclear power plant of 2 in Puerto Rico by capacity.

Puerto Rico has 2 nuclear power plants in this dataset, together about 601 MW of capacity.

Nearby power plants

• Cambalache · Oil · 246 MW · Arecibo
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• Caonillas 1 · Hydro · 18 MW · Utuado
• Vega Baja · Gas · 42 MW · Vega Baja
• Caonillas 2 · Hydro · 3.6 MW · Utuado

Location

Coordinates 18.4872, -66.5966 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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