Power Plants Near 42071 — Murray, KY

19 power plants within 50 miles of ZIP 42071 (Murray, Kentucky). Click any plant for capacity, generation, emissions, and generator-level detail.

Centroid: 36.6099, -88.3032 · County: Calloway

Coal 55%Natural Gas 38%Hydroelectric 6%

Distance	Plant	Fuel	Capacity	Operator
11.1 mi	Sr Puryear Puryear, TN	Solar	—	Sr Puryear, Llc
11.4 mi	Sr Paris Paris, TN	Solar	7 MW	Sr Paris, Llc
27.4 mi	Mayfield Solar And Storage Mayfield, KY	Solar	—	Brightnight Power
27.9 mi	Kentucky Dam Grand Rivers, KY	Hydroelectric	219 MW	Tennessee Valley Authority
28.8 mi	Barkley Kuttawa, KY	Hydroelectric	130 MW	Usce-Nashville District
29.4 mi	Marshall Energy Facility Calvert City, KY	Natural Gas	688 MW	Tennessee Valley Authority
30.4 mi	Calvert City Calvert City, KY	Natural Gas	27 MW	Dte Calvert City Llc
30.5 mi	Gleason Generating Facility Gleason, TN	Natural Gas	568 MW	Tennessee Valley Authority
31.1 mi	Ashwood Solar I Eddyville, KY	Solar	—	Big Sky Wind, Llc
34.0 mi	Pps Power Plant No 1 Paducah, KY	Natural Gas	120 MW	Paducah Power System
39.1 mi	Cumberland (Tn) Cumberland City, TN	Coal	2,600 MW	Tennessee Valley Authority
39.2 mi	West Camden Camden, TN	Biomass	5 MW	Wm Renewable Energy Llc
39.2 mi	Smithland Hydroelectric Plant Smithland, KY	Hydroelectric	76 MW	American Mun Power-Ohio, Inc
41.3 mi	Oetn1 Obion, TN	Solar	100 MW	Oe_tn1
42.4 mi	Bi-County Gas Producers Woodlawn, TN	Biomass	3 MW	Cube District Energy, Llc
42.7 mi	Gage Solar Paducah, KY	Solar	—	Ggso, Llc
43.9 mi	Johnsonville New Johnsonville, TN	Natural Gas	1,426 MW	Tennessee Valley Authority
45.6 mi	Sr Trezevant Trezevant, TN	Solar	—	Sr Trezevant, Llc
45.6 mi	Shawnee West Paducah, KY	Coal	1,575 MW	Tennessee Valley Authority

Power generation near this area

There are 19 power plants within 50 miles of Murray, Kentucky (ZIP 42071), with a combined 7,543 MW of nameplate capacity. Solar is the most common fuel type in this area with 7 of the 19 nearby plants. The closest plant is Sr Puryear at 11.1 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 Kentucky, visit the Kentucky state page.

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