Mexico power sector emissions by source 2023

In 2023, natural gas power in Mexico emitted 125 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (MtCO₂e). Natural gas accounted for roughly 70 percent of electricity generation in Mexico in 2023. Other fossil fuels such as oil and other petroleum products accounted for less than 15 percent of Mexico's power sector emissions in 2023, down from more than 59 percent in 2000.

Power sector emissions in Mexico from 2000 to 2023, by source (in million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent)

Characteristic	Bioenergy	Coal	Gas	Hydro	Nuclear	Other Fossil*	Solar	Wind
2023	1.43	29.3	125.22	0.49	0.06	21.56	1.01	0.16
2022	1.43	18.9	117.11	0.85	0.05	22.53	0.92	0.16
2021	1.3	11.71	115.68	0.83	0.06	21.67	0.96	0.16
2020	1.5	16.34	118.33	0.64	0.05	21.35	0.75	0.15
2019	1.56	28.24	127.25	0.56	0.05	22.89	0.47	0.13
2018	1.59	25.09	131.59	0.77	0.06	23.49	0.15	0.1
2017	1.76	26.67	120.1	0.76	0.05	25.58	0.06	0.08
2016	1.65	29.77	117.21	0.73	0.05	22.06	0.01	0.08
2015	1.65	29.18	113.76	0.73	0.05	20.55	0.01	0.07
2014	1.54	29.19	106.27	0.92	0.05	21.81	0.01	0.05
2013	1.58	27.43	101.05	0.67	0.05	31.88	0.01	0.03
2012	1.46	29.58	93.82	0.76	0.04	37.72	0	0.03
2011	1.59	29.19	92.63	0.86	0.05	33.71	0	0.01
2010	1.61	28.1	87.77	0.88	0.03	31.37	0	0.01
2009	1.63	25.66	84.36	0.63	0.05	36.03	0	0
2008	1.71	18.6	80.15	0.93	0.05	39.14	0	0
2007	1.78	27.52	78.64	0.65	0.05	37.26	0	0
2006	1.62	27.67	70.86	0.72	0.05	39.2	0	0
2005	1.76	28.6	52.8	0.66	0.05	53.96	0	0
2004	1.57	20.75	56.4	0.6	0.04	51.03	0	0
2003	1.5	26.94	49.2	0.47	0.05	50.07	0	0
2002	1.31	22.75	42.5	0.59	0.05	52.19	0	0
2001	1.35	20.2	31.05	0.68	0.04	61.02	0	0
2000	1.38	16.61	24.61	0.79	0.04	63.55	0	0

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July 2024

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Mexico

Survey time period

2000 to 2023

Supplementary notes

Figures aim to include full lifecycle emissions including upstream methane, supply-chain and manufacturing emissions, and include all gases, converted into CO₂ equivalent over a 100 year timescale.

*Other fossil includes generation from oil and petroleum products, as well as manufactured gases and waste.

**Other renewables generation includes geothermal, tidal and wave generation.

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