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Power plants in Puerto Rico

63 power-plant records · 6,048 MW reported capacity

  • Solar 35%
  • Oil 33%
  • Gas 13%
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Puerto Rico at a glance

Power-plant records
63
Reported capacity
6,048 MW
Renewable electricity (2024)
6%
Most records
Solar, Oil
Grid operator
LUMA Energy
Capital
San Juan

Reported capacity is the rated size of the listed installations, not electricity being produced now. Source dates and coverage differ, so newer facilities may be absent and historical records may remain.

How electricity works in Puerto Rico

Single buyerOne state buyer, private generators

Oil, gas and coal supply most power, with growing rooftop solar. The grid is still recovering from Hurricane Maria and suffers frequent outages.

  1. GenerationState utility + private producers
  2. TransmissionOne state buyer
  3. DistributionUtility networks
  4. CustomersRegulated tariffs

Who regulates

Electricity rules follow the United States.

Who controls the grid

PREPA owns the grid; LUMA Energy operates transmission and distribution and Genera PR runs the state-owned plants under private contracts.

Markets & power exchanges

No open power exchange: producers sell to the single buyer under long-term contracts.

Regional grid

Not part of a larger synchronous grid or regional power pool.

What does “Single buyer” mean?

Independent power producers build plants and sell their output under long-term contracts to one designated state buyer, usually the national utility, which runs the grid and sells to consumers.

References reviewed 2026-09-29. Logos are each organisation’s own site icon, shown to identify it. Selected organisations, not an exhaustive list of licence holders.

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ELECTRICITY IN 2024

How Puerto Rico generates electricity

Electricity generated20 TWh
Renewable share6%
Low-carbon share6%
Carbon intensity656 gCO₂e/kWh

Electricity mix 2024

Annual generation by source · terawatt-hours (TWh)

Hydro0.05 TWh
Wind0.18 TWh
Solar0.96 TWh
Bioenergy0.01 TWh
Other renewables0 TWh
Nuclear0 TWh
Coal3.2 TWh
Gas5.4 TWh
Other fossil10.2 TWh

Missing categories are labelled “No data”. Rounding can cause small differences from the reported total.

Source: Ember (2026), processed by Our World in Data · CC BY 4.0 · Snapshot 24 April 2026. Method & download details.

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Geography and data notes

Puerto Rico is in Caribbean. Its coastal or island geography provides a different setting for electricity infrastructure from inland systems. This profile connects country reference information with the historical station inventory and reported electricity generation.

Capital
San Juan
Languages
English, Spanish
Region
Caribbean

Geographic reference: Countries geographic database (ODbL). Boundaries and names are for orientation; language listings are introductory, not exhaustive. Banner map: Natural Earth boundaries (public domain) with this atlas’s station records.

The source inventory contains 63 records for Puerto Rico. Select a fuel in the map to explore where its stations are located, then open a record to inspect reported capacity and provenance.

Inventory coverage

63 source records. 0 reported operational in their source snapshot; this is not live status.

34 lack an owner/operator; 51 lack a commissioning year.

Coverage, dates & exclusions
THE GENERATION INVENTORY

List of power plants in Puerto Rico

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Browse 63 source records, ordered by reported capacity. Ownership and operating status describe the source snapshot; they may have changed. Missing information is shown explicitly.

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MW measures rated capacity, not electricity generated. Records may describe units, installations, projects or whole complexes. Review inventory coverage and licenses. Download this country’s records.