Power Plants Near 51510 — Carter Lake, IA

32 power plants within 50 miles of ZIP 51510 (Carter Lake, Iowa). Click any plant for capacity, generation, emissions, and generator-level detail.

Centroid: 41.2925, -95.9141 · County: Pottawattamie

Coal 74%Natural Gas 18%Wind 3%Oil 3%

Distance	Plant	Fuel	Capacity	Operator
2.9 mi	Jones Street Omaha, NE	Oil	130 MW	Omaha Public Power District
3.0 mi	North Omaha Omaha, NE	Coal	645 MW	Omaha Public Power District
6.2 mi	Missouri River Wastewater Treatment Omaha, NE	Biomass	3 MW	City Of Omaha
8.7 mi	Walter Scott Jr Energy Center Council Bluffs, IA	Coal	1,648 MW	Midamerican Energy Co
8.9 mi	Sarpy County Bellevue, NE	Natural Gas	338 MW	Omaha Public Power District
9.5 mi	Standing Bear Lake Omaha, NE	Natural Gas	—	Omaha Public Power District
12.3 mi	Fort Calhoun Community Solar Fort Calhoun, NE	Solar	5 MW	Dg Southwest Solar Portfolio 2019, Llc
15.1 mi	Papillion Creek Wastewater Bellevue, NE	Biomass	2 MW	City Of Omaha
17.9 mi	Fort Calhoun Blair, NE	Nuclear	—	Omaha Public Power District
18.8 mi	Elk City Station Bennington, NE	Biomass	6 MW	Omaha Public Power District
19.1 mi	Turtle Creek Springfield, NE	Natural Gas	—	Omaha Public Power District
23.4 mi	Big Elk Solar Kennard, NE	Solar	—	Lightsource Renewable Energy Asset Management, Llc
24.0 mi	Cass County Plattsmouth, NE	Natural Gas	345 MW	Omaha Public Power District
25.2 mi	Platteview Solar Llc Ashland, NE	Solar	81 MW	Aes Distributed Energy
29.9 mi	Lon Wright Fremont, NE	Coal	172 MW	City Of Fremont - (Ne)
32.2 mi	Bright Battery Weeping Water, NE	Other Fossil	1 MW	Omaha Public Power District
36.7 mi	Wahoo Wahoo, NE	Natural Gas	14 MW	City Of Wahoo - (Ne)
36.7 mi	Walnut Wind Farm Walnut, IA	Wind	165 MW	Midamerican Energy Co
39.4 mi	Harlan Harlan, IA	Oil	3 MW	Harlan Municipal Utilities - (Ia)
42.4 mi	Nebraska City # 1 Nebraska City, NE	Natural Gas	26 MW	City Of Nebraska City
42.8 mi	Burt County Solar Hybrid Tekamah, NE	Solar	1 MW	Bcsb, Llc
43.3 mi	Nebraska City # 2 Nebraska City, NE	Natural Gas	14 MW	City Of Nebraska City
44.8 mi	Syracuse # 2 Syracuse, NE	Natural Gas	4 MW	City Of Nebraska City
45.0 mi	Terry Bundy Generating Station Lincoln, NE	Natural Gas	216 MW	Lincoln Electric System
45.6 mi	Salt Valley Wind Plant Lincoln, NE	Wind	1 MW	Lincoln Electric System
45.7 mi	Shenandoah Shenandoah, IA	Oil	20 MW	Midamerican Energy Co
46.7 mi	Burt County Wind Oakland, NE	Wind	—	Consolidated Edison Development Inc.
46.9 mi	Archer Daniels Midland Lincoln Lincoln, NE	Coal	8 MW	Archer Daniels Midland Co
46.9 mi	Nebraska City Nebraska City, NE	Coal	1,390 MW	Omaha Public Power District
46.9 mi	Scribner Diesel Generation Facility Scribner, NE	Oil	4 MW	City Of Scribner
48.1 mi	Atlantic Atlantic, IA	Natural Gas	10 MW	Atlantic Municipal Utilities
48.7 mi	Dodge County Solar Hybrid Scribner, NE	Solar	1 MW	Bcsb, Llc

Power generation near this area

There are 32 power plants within 50 miles of Carter Lake, Iowa (ZIP 51510), with a combined 5,255 MW of nameplate capacity. Natural Gas is the most common fuel type in this area with 10 of the 32 nearby plants. The closest plant is Jones Street at 2.9 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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