Power Plants Near 52043 — Elkader, IA

36 power plants within 50 miles of ZIP 52043 (Elkader, Iowa). Click any plant for capacity, generation, emissions, and generator-level detail.

Centroid: 42.8496, -91.4143 · County: Clayton

Coal 32%Solar 31%Wind 27%Oil 6%Natural Gas 3%

Distance	Plant	Fuel	Capacity	Operator
11.7 mi	South Strawberry Strawberry Point, IA	Oil	4 MW	City Of Strawberry Point
13.0 mi	Strawberry Point Strawberry Point, IA	Oil	—	City Of Strawberry Point
13.6 mi	Strawberry Point Dpc Solar Strawberry Point, IA	Solar	1 MW	Socore Energy Llc
17.1 mi	Mcgregor Mcgregor, IA	Oil	2 MW	City Of Mcgregor- (Ia)
18.1 mi	Alliant Sbd 9201 Norplex Postville, IA	Oil	2 MW	Industrial Energy Applications Inc
18.5 mi	Elk Wind Farm Greeley, IA	Wind	41 MW	Greenbacker Renewable Energy Corporation
22.4 mi	Nelson Dewey Generating Station Cassville, WI	Coal	—	Wisconsin Power & Light Co
25.6 mi	Cassville Solar Cassville, WI	Solar	50 MW	Wisconsin Power & Light Co
25.6 mi	Earlville Earlville, IA	Oil	2 MW	City Of Earlville - (Ia)
26.5 mi	Ced Manchester Wind Manchester, IA	Wind	8 MW	Consolidated Edison Development Inc.
29.9 mi	Independence Wind Farm Manchester, IA	Wind	55 MW	Independence Wind Energy Llc
30.7 mi	Mt. Hope Dpc Solar Mt. Hope, WI	Solar	1 MW	Socore Energy Llc
33.5 mi	Hawkeye Wind Farm Sumner, IA	Wind	35 MW	Greenbacker Renewable Energy Corporation
34.6 mi	Sumner Sumner, IA	Oil	5 MW	City Of Sumner - (Ia)
35.3 mi	Wapsie Valley Creamery Back Up Generator Independence, IA	Oil	2 MW	Wapsie Valley Creamery
35.8 mi	Lansing Lansing, IA	Coal	275 MW	Interstate Power And Light Co
36.0 mi	Hopkinton Hopkinton, IA	Oil	4 MW	City Of Hopkinton - (Ia)
37.3 mi	Grant County Town Of Potosi, WI	Solar	200 MW	Wisconsin Power & Light Co
37.9 mi	Decorah Battery Decorah, IA	Other Fossil	3 MW	Interstate Power And Light Co
38.6 mi	Luther College Wind Project Decorah, IA	Wind	2 MW	Luther College Wind Energy Project Llc
39.0 mi	Fennimore Solar Fennimore, WI	Solar	3 MW	Butter Solar, Llc
39.5 mi	Coggon Solar Llc Coggon, IA	Solar	—	Clenera Devco Llc
39.5 mi	Fennimore Fennimore, WI	Oil	7 MW	City Of Fennimore - (Wi)
39.6 mi	Dpc Madison Ridgeway, IA	Solar	2 MW	Socore Energy Llc
39.8 mi	Coggon Coggon, IA	Oil	2 MW	Coggon Municipal Light Plant
40.1 mi	West Dubuque Solar Dubuque, IA	Solar	4 MW	Interstate Power And Light Co
41.3 mi	John Deere Dubuque Works Dubuque, IA	Oil	9 MW	John Deere Dubuque Works
42.1 mi	Alliant Sbd 9205 A Y Mcdonald Dubuque, IA	Oil	4 MW	Industrial Energy Applications Inc
43.1 mi	Alliant Sbd 9301 Prairie Farms Dubuque, IA	Oil	4 MW	Industrial Energy Applications Inc
43.2 mi	Cascade Cascade, IA	Oil	7 MW	Cascade Municipal Utilities
45.1 mi	Bluff Prairie (Vernon) De Soto, WI	Solar	2 MW	Greenbacker Renewable Energy Corporation
45.2 mi	Dubuque Dubuque, IA	Natural Gas	—	Interstate Power And Light Co
48.2 mi	New Hampton New Hampton, IA	Natural Gas	27 MW	City Of New Hampton - (Ia)
49.8 mi	Red Barn Energy Montfort, WI	Wind	92 MW	Wisconsin Public Service Corp
49.8 mi	Whitetail Wind Farm Montford, WI	Wind	—	Invenergy Services Llc
49.9 mi	Genoa Genoa, WI	Coal	—	Dairyland Power Coop

Power generation near this area

There are 36 power plants within 50 miles of Elkader, Iowa (ZIP 52043), with a combined 851 MW of nameplate capacity. Oil is the most common fuel type in this area with 14 of the 36 nearby plants. The closest plant is South Strawberry at 11.7 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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