Other power plant in Veracruz, Mexico. Approximate location 17.9837, -94.5333.
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Refinería General Lázaro Cárdenas power station is a 104 MW other power station in Veracruz, Mexico. It is operated by Pemex-Transformación Industrial SA de CV. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 78k homes (estimated). It ranks #181 of 366 Mexico power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2007, it is around 19 years old — relatively modern. Its modelled annual emissions are 408,720 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE), equivalent to about 95k cars driven for a year. In context, 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-5982.
Known, modelled and calculated values are kept separate. Missing fields are shown as unavailable.
The capacity and fuel fields on this page are source-record values from the upstream open dataset. They are useful for identification and ranking, but they have not been upgraded to a 2026 registry/GEM-location verified value.
capacity: Climate TRACE source-record capacity (modelled/legacy); fuel: Primary fuel not stated in available source record; classified as Other/industrial-mixed pending country registry match
At 104 MW, Refinería General Lázaro Cárdenas power station is below the median other plant in Mexico (184 MW). Technically it is described as Steam. This facility converts its energy source into electricity for the grid; its capacity, fuel type and location determine its role in the national power mix.
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 Pemex-Transformación Industrial SA de CV. All plants by this company →
This other plant generates electricity for the grid. It sits in a tropical monsoon climate (Köppen Am) — 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
This site has effectively no heating season (tropical/equatorial climate), so winter heat loss is not the driver here. The thermal concern shifts to year-round process heat and humidity/heat-driven corrosion of hot equipment.
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 other power plant of 6 in Mexico by capacity.
Mexico has 6 other power plants in this dataset, together about 1,252 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 17.9837, -94.5333 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Refinería General Lázaro Cárdenas power station is a 104 MW source-record other power plant in Veracruz, Mexico, commissioned in 2007.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 78,089 homes (estimated).
Refinería General Lázaro Cárdenas power station is operated by Pemex-Transformación Industrial SA de CV.
Refinería General Lázaro Cárdenas power station has modelled emissions of about 408,720 tonnes of CO₂ per year (Climate TRACE).
