Oil power plant in Sonora, Mexico. Approximate location 29.9068, -112.693.
OilSonoraMexicoSteamCO₂ modelled
Puerto Libertad is a 632 MW oil power station in Sonora, Mexico. It is operated by CFE. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 475k homes (estimated). It ranks #46 of 366 Mexico power plants by installed capacity. Its modelled annual emissions are 2,483,700 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE), equivalent to about 579k 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 MEX0001783.
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 tracker 2026 (location L100000406300); fuel: WRI source-record fuel
At 632 MW, Puerto Libertad is well above the median oil plant in Mexico (300 MW). Technically it is described as Steam. Oil-fired plants burn heavy fuel oil or diesel, usually as peaking or backup capacity on islands and grids without gas pipelines; high fuel cost keeps their utilisation low.
Capacity comparison computed from the WRI Global Power Plant Database; fuel-type context is general engineering background.
This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:
Equivalencies via US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies; modelled emissions from Climate TRACE.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by CFE. All plants by this company →
This oil plant burns oil or diesel to drive turbines or reciprocating engines. It sits in a hot desert climate (Köppen BWh) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 29.9°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 82% 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: 20/100 — this site sits in the bottom third of the power plants we cover by heating degree-days.
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.
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 an aggressive, high-corrosion environment (estimated ISO 9223 class C5 — Very high), with marine salt corrosion 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 #5 largest oil power plant of 27 in Mexico by capacity.
Mexico has 27 oil power plants in this dataset, together about 12,022 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 29.9068, -112.693 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Puerto Libertad is a 632 MW source-record oil power plant in Sonora, Mexico, planned/announced for 2029.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 474,541 homes (estimated).
Puerto Libertad is operated by CFE.
Puerto Libertad has modelled emissions of about 2,483,700 tonnes of CO₂ per year (Climate TRACE).
