Power Plants Near 31902 — Columbus, GA

34 power plants within 50 miles of ZIP 31902 (Columbus, Georgia). Click any plant for capacity, generation, emissions, and generator-level detail.

Centroid: 32.5243, -84.9558 · County: Muscogee

Natural Gas 75%Solar 13%Hydroelectric 8%Biomass 3%

Distance	Plant	Fuel	Capacity	Operator
2.7 mi	Oliver Dam Columbus, GA	Hydroelectric	60 MW	Georgia Power Co
2.9 mi	North Highlands Columbus, GA	Hydroelectric	30 MW	Georgia Power Co
5.0 mi	Walton Discover Power Facility Smiths, AL	Natural Gas	103 MW	Walton Discover Llc
5.9 mi	Muscogee Public Works Columbus, GA	Solar	2 MW	Westbound Solar Llc
9.3 mi	Goat Rock Smiths, AL	Hydroelectric	39 MW	Georgia Power Co
10.1 mi	H Allen Franklin Combined Cycle Smiths, AL	Natural Gas	1,996 MW	Southern Power Co
12.4 mi	Bartletts Ferry Salem, AL	Hydroelectric	173 MW	Georgia Power Co
15.3 mi	Fort Benning Solar Facility Fort Mitchell, AL	Solar	30 MW	Georgia Power Co
16.0 mi	Talbot County Energy Box Springs, GA	Natural Gas	726 MW	Oglethorpe Power Corporation
23.5 mi	Langdale Valley, AL	Hydroelectric	—	Georgia Power Co
24.2 mi	Harris Shiloh Shiloh, GA	Solar	2 MW	Westbound Solar Llc
24.4 mi	Mead Coated Board Mahrt, AL	Biomass	121 MW	Mead Coated Board Inc
25.8 mi	Al Solar C Llc Cusseta, AL	Solar	—	Oe_alc
25.8 mi	Mossy Branch Battery Facility Shiloh, GA	Battery Storage	65 MW	Georgia Power Co
26.1 mi	Troup Rc50 Ii Pine Mountain, GA	Solar	2 MW	Safari Energy, Llc
26.4 mi	Troup Rc50 Pine Mountain, GA	Solar	2 MW	Westbound Solar Llc
30.4 mi	Meriwether Jackson Machester, GA	Solar	3 MW	Safari Energy, Llc
30.4 mi	West Point (Ga) West Point, GA	Hydroelectric	73 MW	Usce-Mobile District
33.2 mi	Kimberly-Clark Solar Lagrange, GA	Solar	2 MW	Dg Georgia Solar Ii, Llc
33.5 mi	Taylor Mauk, GA	Biomass	8 MW	Energy Developments, Inc D/B/A Edl
34.6 mi	Richland (Ga) Columbus, GA	Solar	1 MW	Terraform Arcadia
35.0 mi	Lafayette Solar Farm Lafayette, AL	Solar	79 MW	Boralex Us Operations Llc
36.4 mi	Sandhill Solar 2 Butler, GA	Solar	—	Leeward Asset Management, Llc
36.9 mi	Sr Lumpkin Lumpkin, GA	Solar	100 MW	Sr Lumpkin, Llc
37.4 mi	Butler Solar Farm 20 Butler, GA	Solar	22 MW	Southern Power Co
38.6 mi	Taylor County Solar Butler, GA	Solar	148 MW	Southern Power Co
38.7 mi	Greenville Greenville, GA	Solar	1 MW	Terraform Arcadia
38.7 mi	Camp Solar Plant Woodbury, GA	Solar	2 MW	Axium Us Solar Holdings Llc
39.7 mi	Butler Solar Project 103 Butler, GA	Solar	104 MW	Southern Power Co
40.7 mi	White Pine Solar, Llc Butler, GA	Solar	101 MW	White Pine Solar, Llc
40.9 mi	Pawpaw Solar Plant Butler, GA	Solar	31 MW	Southern Power Co
44.9 mi	Upson Rocky Creek Solar Plant Thomaston, GA	Solar	1 MW	Axium Us Solar Holdings Llc
46.3 mi	Edward L. Addison Generating Plant Thomaston, GA	Natural Gas	701 MW	Southern Power Co
48.3 mi	Upson County Ga S1 Llc Thomaston, GA	Solar	3 MW	Solriver Capital Llc

Power generation near this area

There are 34 power plants within 50 miles of Columbus, Georgia (ZIP 31902), with a combined 4,730 MW of nameplate capacity. Solar is the most common fuel type in this area with 21 of the 34 nearby plants. The closest plant is Oliver Dam at 2.7 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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