Power Plants Near 30742 — Fort Oglethorpe, GA

25 power plants within 50 miles of ZIP 30742 (Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia). Click any plant for capacity, generation, emissions, and generator-level detail.

Centroid: 34.9506, -85.2432 · County: Catoosa

Hydroelectric 47%Nuclear 34%Natural Gas 17%

Distance	Plant	Fuel	Capacity	Operator
5.5 mi	Chattanooga Metropolitan Airport Solar Chattanooga, TN	Solar	3 MW	Chattanooga Metropolitan Airport
10.5 mi	Chickamauga Chattanooga, TN	Hydroelectric	160 MW	Tennessee Valley Authority
11.0 mi	Raccoon Mountain Chattanooga, TN	Hydroelectric	1,714 MW	Tennessee Valley Authority
12.1 mi	Volkswagen Solar System Chattanooga, TN	Solar	8 MW	Sr Enterprise South, Llc
16.9 mi	Whitfield Cooper Cohutta, GA	Solar	1 MW	Westbound Solar 3, Llc
20.9 mi	Sequoyah Soddy Daisy, TN	Nuclear	2,441 MW	Tennessee Valley Authority
21.7 mi	Nickajack New Hope, TN	Hydroelectric	104 MW	Tennessee Valley Authority
23.9 mi	Dalton 2 Dalton, GA	Solar	7 MW	Georgia Power Co
24.9 mi	Thomas A Smith Energy Facility Dalton, GA	Natural Gas	1,192 MW	Oglethorpe Power Corporation
27.4 mi	Murray Treadwell Farms Chatsworth, GA	Solar	3 MW	Safari Energy, Llc
29.4 mi	Widows Creek Stevenson, AL	Coal	—	Tennessee Valley Authority
31.4 mi	Sr Marion, Llc Dunlap, TN	Solar	1 MW	Sr Marion, Llc
32.3 mi	Sr Sequatchie Dunlap, TN	Solar	—	Sr Sequatchie, Llc
33.4 mi	Chattooga Gore Menlo, GA	Solar	2 MW	Westbound Solar 3, Llc
35.1 mi	Ocoee 1 Benton, TN	Hydroelectric	19 MW	Tennessee Valley Authority
36.4 mi	Bowater Newsprint Calhoun Operation Calhoun, TN	Biomass	63 MW	Resolute Forest Products
39.9 mi	Carters Chatsworth, GA	Hydroelectric	500 MW	Usce-Mobile District
41.3 mi	Rocky Mountain Hydroelectric Plant Rome, GA	Hydroelectric	848 MW	Oglethorpe Power Corporation
42.3 mi	Bellefonte Hollywood, AL	Oil	14 MW	Tennessee Valley Authority
43.5 mi	Ocoee 2 Benton, TN	Hydroelectric	23 MW	Tennessee Valley Authority
43.9 mi	Ocoee 3 Benton, TN	Hydroelectric	29 MW	Tennessee Valley Authority
46.6 mi	Gordon Thompson Fairmount, GA	Solar	3 MW	Westbound Solar 3, Llc
46.7 mi	Gordon Pine Hall Fairmount, GA	Solar	2 MW	Westbound Solar 3, Llc
48.5 mi	Inland Paperboard Packaging Rome Rome, GA	Oil	70 MW	Inland Paperboard - Rome Mill
48.6 mi	Hammond Rome, GA	Coal	—	Georgia Power Co

Power generation near this area

There are 25 power plants within 50 miles of Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia (ZIP 30742), with a combined 7,206 MW of nameplate capacity. Solar is the most common fuel type in this area with 10 of the 25 nearby plants. The closest plant is Chattanooga Metropolitan Airport Solar at 5.5 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 Georgia, visit the Georgia state page.

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