Power Plants Near 50518 — Barnum, IA

41 power plants within 50 miles of ZIP 50518 (Barnum, Iowa). Click any plant for capacity, generation, emissions, and generator-level detail.

Centroid: 42.5159, -94.3703 · County: Webster

Wind 93%Solar 3%Oil 3%

Distance	Plant	Fuel	Capacity	Operator
14.1 mi	Holliday Creek Solar Fort Dodge, IA	Solar	100 MW	Midamerican Energy Co
14.2 mi	Poet Biorefining - Gowrie Gowrie, IA	Natural Gas	5 MW	Poet Biorefining - Gowrie
15.1 mi	Pocahontas Prairie Wind Farm Pomeroy, IA	Wind	80 MW	Midamerican Energy Co
16.1 mi	Lundgren Wind Project Otho, IA	Wind	251 MW	Midamerican Energy Co
16.6 mi	Gowrie Gowrie, IA	Oil	3 MW	Gowrie Municipal Utilities
19.7 mi	Pomeroy Wind Farm Fonda, IA	Wind	286 MW	Midamerican Energy Co
21.0 mi	West Diesel Generation Unit Pocahontas, IA	Oil	4 MW	City Of Pocahontas - (Ia)
23.4 mi	Dayton (Ia) Dayton, IA	Oil	2 MW	City Of Dayton - (Ia)
28.5 mi	Webster City Webster City, IA	Oil	21 MW	City Of Webster City - (Ia)
29.3 mi	Junction Hilltop Wind Farm Dana, IA	Wind	8 MW	Junction Hilltop Management Llc
30.0 mi	Hardin Hilltop Wind Llc Jefferson, IA	Wind	15 MW	Junction Hilltop Management Llc
30.1 mi	Beaver Creek Wind Ogden, IA	Wind	340 MW	Midamerican Energy Co
31.0 mi	West Bend West Bent, IA	Oil	7 MW	City Of West Bend
32.5 mi	Sac County Wind, Llc Sac City, IA	Wind	80 MW	Sac County Wind
32.7 mi	Great Pathfinder Wind Stratford, IA	Wind	224 MW	Great Pathfinder Wind
33.5 mi	Laurens Laurens, IA	Oil	9 MW	City Of Laurens - (Ia)
33.6 mi	Grand Junction Grand Junction, IA	Oil	2 MW	City Of Grand Junction - (Ia)
34.7 mi	Kossuth County Wind Lu Verne, IA	Wind	70 MW	Kossuth County Wind, Llc
35.3 mi	Kossuth Lu Verne, IA	Wind	152 MW	Wisconsin Power & Light Co
35.9 mi	Rippey Wind Farm Grand Junction, IA	Wind	50 MW	Greenbacker Renewable Energy Corporation
37.0 mi	Ogden Ogden, IA	Oil	4 MW	City Of Ogden - (Ia)
37.5 mi	Century Blairsburg, IA	Wind	201 MW	Midamerican Energy Co
37.6 mi	Carroll Wind Farm Carroll, IA	Wind	159 MW	Midamerican Energy Co
37.7 mi	Iowa Distributed Wind Generation Project Algona, IA	Wind	2 MW	City Of Algona - (Ia)
38.4 mi	Poet Biorefining - Jewell Jewell, IA	Natural Gas	5 MW	Poet Biorefining - Jewell
39.1 mi	Algona Algona, IA	Oil	16 MW	City Of Algona - (Ia)
40.8 mi	Fareway Customer Hosted 1 Mw Solar Boone, IA	Solar	1 MW	Interstate Power And Light Co
42.1 mi	Poet Bioprocessing Emmetsburg Emmetsburg, IA	Natural Gas	4 MW	Poet Bioprocessing Emmetsburg
44.7 mi	Story City Wind Project Story City, IA	Wind	2 MW	Hamilton Wind Energy Llc
44.9 mi	Phoenix Investors, Llc Belmond, IA	Oil	5 MW	Industrial Energy Applications Inc
44.9 mi	Richland (Ia) Odebolt, IA	Wind	131 MW	Interstate Power And Light Co
45.4 mi	Story City Story City, IA	Oil	14 MW	City Of Story City - (Ia)
46.2 mi	Crosswind Energy Project Ruthven, IA	Wind	21 MW	Junction Hilltop Management Llc
47.3 mi	Coon Rapids Ii Coon Rapids, IA	Oil	5 MW	City Of Coon Rapids
47.6 mi	Victory Wind Farm Westside, IA	Wind	105 MW	Midamerican Energy Co
47.7 mi	Carroll Area Wind Farm Templeton, IA	Wind	21 MW	Sriv Partnership Llc
47.8 mi	Plum Creek Wind Algona, IA	Wind	—	Midamerican Energy Co
48.2 mi	Perry Customer Hosted 1mw Solar Project Perry, IA	Solar	1 MW	Interstate Power And Light Co
48.6 mi	Palo Alto Wind Farm Emmetsburg, IA	Wind	340 MW	Midamerican Energy Co
48.7 mi	Alta Municipal Utilities Alta, IA	Oil	4 MW	City Of Alta - (Ia)
48.8 mi	Intrepid Schaller, IA	Wind	176 MW	Midamerican Energy Co

Power generation near this area

There are 41 power plants within 50 miles of Barnum, Iowa (ZIP 50518), with a combined 2,925 MW of nameplate capacity. Wind is the most common fuel type in this area with 22 of the 41 nearby plants. The closest plant is Holliday Creek Solar at 14.1 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 Iowa, visit the Iowa state page.

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