Power Plants Near 24701 — Bluefield, WV

18 power plants within 50 miles of ZIP 24701 (Bluefield, West Virginia). Click any plant for capacity, generation, emissions, and generator-level detail.

Centroid: 37.2698, -81.2223 · County: Mercer

Natural Gas 50%Hydroelectric 40%Solar 7%Biomass 3%

Distance	Plant	Fuel	Capacity	Operator
20.5 mi	May Solar Wytheville, VA	Battery Storage	—	Alpin Holding Llc
20.9 mi	Glen Lyn Glen Lyn, VA	Coal	—	Appalachian Power Co
23.1 mi	Caden Energix Wytheville Llc Wytheville, VA	Solar	20 MW	Caden Energix Wytheville Llc
25.6 mi	Celanese Acetate Llc Narrows, VA	Natural Gas	27 MW	Celanese Acetate Llc
29.4 mi	New River Dublin, VA	Biomass	5 MW	Ingenco Renewable Development, Llc
30.8 mi	Hecate Energy Pulaski 1 Dublin, VA	Solar	—	Aes Clean Energy
34.5 mi	Wythe County Solar Wythe County, VA	Solar	—	Consolidated Edison Development Inc.
35.5 mi	Buck Hydro Ivanhoe, VA	Hydroelectric	8 MW	Appalachian Power Co
37.0 mi	Byllesby 2 Ivanhoe, VA	Hydroelectric	22 MW	Appalachian Power Co
37.6 mi	Claytor Radford, VA	Hydroelectric	75 MW	Appalachian Power Co
37.9 mi	New River Clean Energy Beckley, WV	Biomass	3 MW	Cox Enterprises
37.9 mi	Radford Army Ammunition Plant Radford, VA	Natural Gas	18 MW	U.s. Army - Radford
38.1 mi	Radford Radford, VA	Hydroelectric	1 MW	City Of Radford - (Va)
40.5 mi	Fries Hydroelectric Project Fries, VA	Hydroelectric	5 MW	Central Rivers Power Us, Llc
41.2 mi	Buchanan Generation Llc Keen Mountain, VA	Natural Gas	88 MW	Buchanan Generation, Llc
42.9 mi	Issa Solar Hillsville, VA	Battery Storage	—	Alpin Holding Llc
43.0 mi	River Trail Solar, Llc Galax, VA	Solar	—	River Trail Solar, Llc
44.1 mi	Virginia Tech Power Plant Blacksburg, VA	Natural Gas	6 MW	Virginia Polytechnic Inst And State Unv

Power generation near this area

There are 18 power plants within 50 miles of Bluefield, West Virginia (ZIP 24701), with a combined 279 MW of nameplate capacity. Hydroelectric is the most common fuel type in this area with 5 of the 18 nearby plants. The closest plant is May Solar at 20.5 miles.

Nameplate capacity is the maximum output a plant can produce under ideal conditions — actual generation depends on fuel availability, demand, and maintenance schedules. Capacity factor (shown on individual plant pages) measures how much of that theoretical maximum a plant actually delivers over a year. Nuclear plants typically run above 90%; solar and wind range from 20–45% depending on location and weather.

All data comes from federal EIA and EPA releases. For a printable version of this proximity search, use the report link below. To explore all plants in West Virginia, visit the West Virginia state page.

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