Power Plants Near 50524 — Clare, IA

42 power plants within 50 miles of ZIP 50524 (Clare, Iowa). Click any plant for capacity, generation, emissions, and generator-level detail.

Centroid: 42.5954, -94.3080 · County: Webster

Wind 93%Solar 3%Oil 3%

Distance	Plant	Fuel	Capacity	Operator
10.6 mi	Holliday Creek Solar Fort Dodge, IA	Solar	100 MW	Midamerican Energy Co
17.9 mi	Pocahontas Prairie Wind Farm Pomeroy, IA	Wind	80 MW	Midamerican Energy Co
19.1 mi	Poet Biorefining - Gowrie Gowrie, IA	Natural Gas	5 MW	Poet Biorefining - Gowrie
19.3 mi	Lundgren Wind Project Otho, IA	Wind	251 MW	Midamerican Energy Co
20.4 mi	West Diesel Generation Unit Pocahontas, IA	Oil	4 MW	City Of Pocahontas - (Ia)
21.6 mi	Gowrie Gowrie, IA	Oil	3 MW	Gowrie Municipal Utilities
22.3 mi	Pomeroy Wind Farm Fonda, IA	Wind	286 MW	Midamerican Energy Co
26.2 mi	Dayton (Ia) Dayton, IA	Oil	2 MW	City Of Dayton - (Ia)
26.2 mi	West Bend West Bent, IA	Oil	7 MW	City Of West Bend
26.5 mi	Webster City Webster City, IA	Oil	21 MW	City Of Webster City - (Ia)
28.4 mi	Kossuth County Wind Lu Verne, IA	Wind	70 MW	Kossuth County Wind, Llc
29.0 mi	Kossuth Lu Verne, IA	Wind	152 MW	Wisconsin Power & Light Co
31.5 mi	Iowa Distributed Wind Generation Project Algona, IA	Wind	2 MW	City Of Algona - (Ia)
32.6 mi	Laurens Laurens, IA	Oil	9 MW	City Of Laurens - (Ia)
33.2 mi	Algona Algona, IA	Oil	16 MW	City Of Algona - (Ia)
34.2 mi	Century Blairsburg, IA	Wind	201 MW	Midamerican Energy Co
34.3 mi	Great Pathfinder Wind Stratford, IA	Wind	224 MW	Great Pathfinder Wind
34.4 mi	Junction Hilltop Wind Farm Dana, IA	Wind	8 MW	Junction Hilltop Management Llc
34.5 mi	Beaver Creek Wind Ogden, IA	Wind	340 MW	Midamerican Energy Co
35.6 mi	Hardin Hilltop Wind Llc Jefferson, IA	Wind	15 MW	Junction Hilltop Management Llc
37.0 mi	Sac County Wind, Llc Sac City, IA	Wind	80 MW	Sac County Wind
37.7 mi	Poet Biorefining - Jewell Jewell, IA	Natural Gas	5 MW	Poet Biorefining - Jewell
38.3 mi	Poet Bioprocessing Emmetsburg Emmetsburg, IA	Natural Gas	4 MW	Poet Bioprocessing Emmetsburg
39.2 mi	Grand Junction Grand Junction, IA	Oil	2 MW	City Of Grand Junction - (Ia)
39.5 mi	Phoenix Investors, Llc Belmond, IA	Oil	5 MW	Industrial Energy Applications Inc
40.8 mi	Ogden Ogden, IA	Oil	4 MW	City Of Ogden - (Ia)
40.9 mi	Rippey Wind Farm Grand Junction, IA	Wind	50 MW	Greenbacker Renewable Energy Corporation
41.5 mi	Plum Creek Wind Algona, IA	Wind	—	Midamerican Energy Co
43.4 mi	Fareway Customer Hosted 1 Mw Solar Boone, IA	Solar	1 MW	Interstate Power And Light Co
43.6 mi	Carroll Wind Farm Carroll, IA	Wind	159 MW	Midamerican Energy Co
43.9 mi	Palo Alto Wind Farm Emmetsburg, IA	Wind	340 MW	Midamerican Energy Co
44.1 mi	Crosswind Energy Project Ruthven, IA	Wind	21 MW	Junction Hilltop Management Llc
45.0 mi	Story City Wind Project Story City, IA	Wind	2 MW	Hamilton Wind Energy Llc
45.9 mi	Story City Story City, IA	Oil	14 MW	City Of Story City - (Ia)
46.7 mi	Hancock County Wind Energy Center Garner, IA	Wind	98 MW	Fpl Energy Hancock County Wind, Llc
46.9 mi	Whispering Willow North Latimer, IA	Wind	201 MW	Interstate Power And Light Co
48.3 mi	Leonardo Wind 1 Llc Alden, IA	Wind	3 MW	Leonardo Wind 1 Llc
48.4 mi	Bancroft Bancroft, IA	Oil	4 MW	Bancroft Municipal Utilities
49.0 mi	Fpl Energy Crystal Lake Wind Llc Britt, IA	Wind	150 MW	Fpl Energy Crystal Lake Wind Llc
49.4 mi	Franklin County Wind Farm Iowa Falls, IA	Wind	99 MW	Interstate Power And Light Co
49.5 mi	Richland (Ia) Odebolt, IA	Wind	131 MW	Interstate Power And Light Co
49.8 mi	Graettinger Graettinger, IA	Oil	4 MW	City Of Graettinger - (Ia)

Power generation near this area

There are 42 power plants within 50 miles of Clare, Iowa (ZIP 50524), with a combined 3,173 MW of nameplate capacity. Wind is the most common fuel type in this area with 24 of the 42 nearby plants. The closest plant is Holliday Creek Solar at 10.6 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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