Mexico: Energy Infrastructure & Industrial Capabilities

Generation capacity, grid topology, trade specialization, and green manufacturing investment by state and municipality.
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Data Sources & Limitations

Current Data (Level 1)
  • OSM Transmission lines: 9,000 segments, 69kV+. Northern border states better mapped than south. No line capacity (MW thermal rating).
  • OSM Substations: 3,065. Voltage present for 87%. Missing: rated capacity (MVA), transformer loading.
  • OSM Generators: 41,836 individual units (38k solar). No MW per unit. Count-based density only.
  • WRI GPPD v1.3 277 plants, 62,366 MW. Vintage 2016-2017. Captures 69% of installed capacity. Solar underestimated ~9 GW, wind ~6 GW vs. SENER 2024.
  • BNEF Big Green Machine 37 green manufacturing projects (35 geocoded). Investment announcements and planned capacity. These are investment commitments, not current operating facilities.
  • DENUE via DataMexico State x National Industry employment (SCIAN 6-digit). Multi-month aggregate. Mapped to plays via SCIAN 3-digit concordance. SCIAN subsectors are broader than HS6 play products.
  • Municipality relatedness density uses HS2 co-occurrence (coarser than state-level HS4). Municipality baskets average ~39 HS4 products. Interpret as directional, not precise.
  • Carbon intensity is a capacity-weighted proxy, not dispatch-based. Actual grid emissions depend on hourly dispatch order.
Required for Level 2-3 (source)
  • CENACE (cenace.gob.mx): Hourly nodal dispatch, congestion pricing, line flow limits. Required to identify actual bottlenecks. Not open-access; request via INAI.
  • SENER / SIE (sie.energia.gob.mx): Updated plant registry, installed capacity post-2020. Fills the GPPD gap for solar/wind. Manual extraction required.
  • CRE (cre.gob.mx): Generation permits, bilateral PPAs. Required for off-grid industrial power analysis.
  • CFE / PRODESEN: Substation MVA ratings, transformer loading %, 15-year grid expansion plan. Critical for Level 3 scenario validation.
  • ERA5 via CDS API (Copernicus): Hourly solar irradiance + wind speed rasters for capacity expansion optimization.
  • DENUE / INEGI: Geocoded establishment census. Would provide current operating facilities by SCIAN code. Public API, municipality-level aggregation recommended.