Power Plants Near 51526 — Crescent, IA

28 power plants within 50 miles of ZIP 51526 (Crescent, Iowa). Click any plant for capacity, generation, emissions, and generator-level detail.

Centroid: 41.3644, -95.8276 · County: Pottawattamie

Coal 65%Natural Gas 24%Wind 4%Oil 4%Solar 2%

Distance	Plant	Fuel	Capacity	Operator
6.5 mi	North Omaha Omaha, NE	Coal	645 MW	Omaha Public Power District
9.2 mi	Jones Street Omaha, NE	Oil	130 MW	Omaha Public Power District
11.2 mi	Fort Calhoun Community Solar Fort Calhoun, NE	Solar	5 MW	Dg Southwest Solar Portfolio 2019, Llc
12.3 mi	Missouri River Wastewater Treatment Omaha, NE	Biomass	3 MW	City Of Omaha
12.8 mi	Walter Scott Jr Energy Center Council Bluffs, IA	Coal	1,648 MW	Midamerican Energy Co
14.2 mi	Standing Bear Lake Omaha, NE	Natural Gas	—	Omaha Public Power District
15.3 mi	Sarpy County Bellevue, NE	Natural Gas	338 MW	Omaha Public Power District
16.8 mi	Fort Calhoun Blair, NE	Nuclear	—	Omaha Public Power District
20.0 mi	Papillion Creek Wastewater Bellevue, NE	Biomass	2 MW	City Of Omaha
22.2 mi	Elk City Station Bennington, NE	Biomass	6 MW	Omaha Public Power District
25.3 mi	Big Elk Solar Kennard, NE	Solar	—	Lightsource Renewable Energy Asset Management, Llc
25.8 mi	Turtle Creek Springfield, NE	Natural Gas	—	Omaha Public Power District
29.6 mi	Cass County Plattsmouth, NE	Natural Gas	345 MW	Omaha Public Power District
31.1 mi	Platteview Solar Llc Ashland, NE	Solar	81 MW	Aes Distributed Energy
31.1 mi	Walnut Wind Farm Walnut, IA	Wind	165 MW	Midamerican Energy Co
32.8 mi	Harlan Harlan, IA	Oil	3 MW	Harlan Municipal Utilities - (Ia)
33.2 mi	Lon Wright Fremont, NE	Coal	172 MW	City Of Fremont - (Ne)
38.7 mi	Bright Battery Weeping Water, NE	Other Fossil	1 MW	Omaha Public Power District
40.3 mi	Burt County Solar Hybrid Tekamah, NE	Solar	1 MW	Bcsb, Llc
42.0 mi	Wahoo Wahoo, NE	Natural Gas	14 MW	City Of Wahoo - (Ne)
43.0 mi	Atlantic Atlantic, IA	Natural Gas	10 MW	Atlantic Municipal Utilities
44.9 mi	Burt County Wind Oakland, NE	Wind	—	Consolidated Edison Development Inc.
47.3 mi	Nebraska City # 1 Nebraska City, NE	Natural Gas	26 MW	City Of Nebraska City
47.3 mi	Shenandoah Shenandoah, IA	Oil	20 MW	Midamerican Energy Co
48.2 mi	Exira Brayton, IA	Natural Gas	182 MW	Western Minnesota Mun Pwr Agny
48.3 mi	Nebraska City # 2 Nebraska City, NE	Natural Gas	14 MW	City Of Nebraska City
48.3 mi	Scribner Diesel Generation Facility Scribner, NE	Oil	4 MW	City Of Scribner
49.4 mi	Wiota Wiota, IA	Wind	2 MW	Wiota Wind Energy, Llc #1

Power generation near this area

There are 28 power plants within 50 miles of Crescent, Iowa (ZIP 51526), with a combined 3,818 MW of nameplate capacity. Natural Gas is the most common fuel type in this area with 9 of the 28 nearby plants. The closest plant is North Omaha at 6.5 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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