Coal power plant in Michoacan, Mexico. Approximate location 17.9837, -102.1154.
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Plutarco Elías Calles (Petacalco) is a 2,778 MW coal power station in Michoacan, Mexico. It is operated by CFE. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 3,476,969 homes (estimated). It ranks #1 of 335 Mexico power plants by installed capacity. Its measured emissions of 6,926,400 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE) are equivalent to about 1,614,545 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 MEX0001765.
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 tropical savanna climate (Köppen Aw) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 18.0°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 #1 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 17.9837, -102.1154 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
