Mexico Energy - 2024

Electricity access

electrification - total population: 100% (2021)

Electricity

installed generating capacity: 93.43 million kW (2020 est.)

consumption: 267.34 billion kWh (2020 est.)

exports: 5.954 billion kWh (2020 est.)

imports: 9.965 billion kWh (2020 est.)

transmission/distribution losses: 42.121 billion kWh (2020 est.)

Electricity generation sources

fossil fuels: 75.7% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

nuclear: 3.6% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

solar: 4.4% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

wind: 6.5% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

hydroelectricity: 7.6% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

tide and wave: 0% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

geothermal: 1.5% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

biomass and waste: 0.8% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

Nuclear energy

Number of operational nuclear reactors: 2 (2023)

Number of nuclear reactors under construction: 0

Net capacity of operational nuclear reactors: 1.55GW (2023)

Percent of total electricity production: 5.3% (2021)

Percent of total energy produced: 1.9% (2021)

Number of nuclear reactors permanently shut down: 0

Coal

production: 9.886 million metric tons (2020 est.)

consumption: 10.241 million metric tons (2020 est.)

exports: 3,000 metric tons (2020 est.)

imports: 5.182 million metric tons (2020 est.)

proven reserves: 1.211 billion metric tons (2019 est.)

Petroleum

total petroleum production: 1,905,500 bbl/day (2021 est.)

refined petroleum consumption: 1,928,800 bbl/day (2019 est.)

crude oil and lease condensate exports: 1,283,300 bbl/day (2018 est.)

crude oil and lease condensate imports: 3,900 bbl/day (2018 est.)

crude oil estimated reserves: 5,786,100,000 barrels (2021 est.)

Refined petroleum products - production

844,600 bbl/day (2017 est.)

Refined petroleum products - exports

155,800 bbl/day (2017 est.)

Refined petroleum products - imports

867,500 bbl/day (2017 est.)

Natural gas

production: 27,037,730,000 cubic meters (2019 est.)

consumption: 86,101,223,000 cubic meters (2019 est.)

exports: 53.037 million cubic meters (2019 est.)

imports: 59,119,362,000 cubic meters (2019 est.)

proven reserves: 180.321 billion cubic meters (2021 est.)

Carbon dioxide emissions

463.739 million metric tonnes of CO2 (2019 est.)

from coal and metallurgical coke: 43.24 million metric tonnes of CO2 (2019 est.)

from petroleum and other liquids: 260.311 million metric tonnes of CO2 (2019 est.)

from consumed natural gas: 160.188 million metric tonnes of CO2 (2019 est.)

Energy consumption per capita

61.597 million Btu/person (2019 est.)