Power Plants Near 49734 — Gaylord, MI

12 power plants within 50 miles of ZIP 49734 (Gaylord, Michigan). Click any plant for capacity, generation, emissions, and generator-level detail.

Centroid: 45.0275, -84.6748 · County: Otsego

Natural Gas 91%Biomass 5%Oil 3%

Distance	Plant	Fuel	Capacity	Operator
1.4 mi	Gaylord - Consumers Gaylord, MI	Natural Gas	—	Consumers Energy Co - (Mi)
2.7 mi	Livingston Generating Station Gaylord, MI	Natural Gas	170 MW	Cms Generation Mi Power Llc
2.8 mi	Gaylord - Wolverine Gaylord, MI	Natural Gas	70 MW	Wolverine Power Supply Coop
7.8 mi	Alpine Power Plant Elmira, MI	Natural Gas	454 MW	Wolverine Power Supply Coop
29.2 mi	Grayling Generating Station Grayling, MI	Biomass	39 MW	Northstar Clean Energy
29.6 mi	Tower Tower, MI	Oil	21 MW	Wolverine Power Supply Coop
30.2 mi	Kleber Onaway, MI	Hydroelectric	2 MW	Tower Kleber Ltd Partnership
34.8 mi	Kalkaska Ct #1 Kalkaska, MI	Natural Gas	61 MW	Michigan Public Power Agency
36.6 mi	Lightfoot Solar, Llc Luzerne, MI	Solar	10 MW	Lightfoot Solar, Llc
36.7 mi	Mio Mio, MI	Hydroelectric	5 MW	Consumers Energy Co - (Mi)
43.2 mi	Cheboygan Cheboygan, MI	Hydroelectric	2 MW	Great Lakes Tissue Co
49.7 mi	Little Trout Solar Rogers City, MI	Solar	—	Dte Electric Company

Power generation near this area

There are 12 power plants within 50 miles of Gaylord, Michigan (ZIP 49734), with a combined 833 MW of nameplate capacity. Natural Gas is the most common fuel type in this area with 5 of the 12 nearby plants. The closest plant is Gaylord - Consumers at 1.4 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.

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