Power Plants Near 49735 — Gaylord, MI

11 power plants within 50 miles of ZIP 49735 (Gaylord, Michigan). Click any plant for capacity, generation, emissions, and generator-level detail.

Centroid: 45.0125, -84.6723 · County: Otsego

Natural Gas 91%Biomass 5%Oil 3%

Distance	Plant	Fuel	Capacity	Operator
2.0 mi	Gaylord - Consumers Gaylord, MI	Natural Gas	—	Consumers Energy Co - (Mi)
2.5 mi	Gaylord - Wolverine Gaylord, MI	Natural Gas	70 MW	Wolverine Power Supply Coop
3.1 mi	Livingston Generating Station Gaylord, MI	Natural Gas	170 MW	Cms Generation Mi Power Llc
8.3 mi	Alpine Power Plant Elmira, MI	Natural Gas	454 MW	Wolverine Power Supply Coop
28.2 mi	Grayling Generating Station Grayling, MI	Biomass	39 MW	Northstar Clean Energy
30.4 mi	Tower Tower, MI	Oil	21 MW	Wolverine Power Supply Coop
31.0 mi	Kleber Onaway, MI	Hydroelectric	2 MW	Tower Kleber Ltd Partnership
34.2 mi	Kalkaska Ct #1 Kalkaska, MI	Natural Gas	61 MW	Michigan Public Power Agency
35.7 mi	Lightfoot Solar, Llc Luzerne, MI	Solar	10 MW	Lightfoot Solar, Llc
35.9 mi	Mio Mio, MI	Hydroelectric	5 MW	Consumers Energy Co - (Mi)
44.2 mi	Cheboygan Cheboygan, MI	Hydroelectric	2 MW	Great Lakes Tissue Co

Power generation near this area

There are 11 power plants within 50 miles of Gaylord, Michigan (ZIP 49735), with a combined 833 MW of nameplate capacity. Natural Gas is the most common fuel type in this area with 5 of the 11 nearby plants. The closest plant is Gaylord - Consumers at 2.0 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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