Power Plants Near 53578 — Prairie Du Sac, WI

56 power plants within 50 miles of ZIP 53578 (Prairie Du Sac, Wisconsin). Click any plant for capacity, generation, emissions, and generator-level detail.

Centroid: 43.2956, -89.7452 · County: Sauk

Coal 35%Natural Gas 30%Solar 21%Wind 9%Oil 2%

Distance	Plant	Fuel	Capacity	Operator
1.3 mi	Prairie Du Sac Prairie Du Sac, WI	Hydroelectric	33 MW	Wisconsin Power & Light Co
15.5 mi	Middleton Biogas Solar, Llc Middleton, WI	Solar	2 MW	Middleton Biogas Solar, Llc
16.4 mi	Middleton Airport Solar Middleton, WI	Solar	6 MW	Madison Gas & Electric Co
17.9 mi	Vienna Walbec Customer Hosted Waunakee, WI	Solar	—	Wisconsin Power & Light Co
21.0 mi	Columbia (Wi) Pardeville, WI	Coal	1,112 MW	Wisconsin Power & Light Co
21.9 mi	Portage Industrial Battery Portage, WI	Other Fossil	5 MW	Wisconsin Power & Light Co
22.2 mi	West Campus Cogeneration Facility Madison, WI	Natural Gas	169 MW	Madison Gas & Electric Co
22.5 mi	Epic Verona Verona, WI	Solar	46 MW	Epic Hosting, Llc
22.9 mi	Kilbourn Wisconsin Dells, WI	Hydroelectric	10 MW	Wisconsin Power & Light Co
22.9 mi	Dane County Airport Solar Madison, WI	Solar	11 MW	Madison Gas & Electric Co
23.3 mi	Uw Madison Charter Street Plant Madison, WI	Natural Gas	11 MW	State Of Wisconsin
23.8 mi	Capitol Heat And Power Madison, WI	Oil	2 MW	State Of Wisconsin
23.9 mi	Diesel Generators Madison, WI	Oil	54 MW	Madison Gas & Electric Co
23.9 mi	Blount Street Madison, WI	Natural Gas	100 MW	Madison Gas & Electric Co
24.1 mi	Fitchburg Madison, WI	Natural Gas	58 MW	Madison Gas & Electric Co
24.8 mi	Galactic Wind Waunakee, WI	Wind	10 MW	Galactic Wind
25.1 mi	O'brien Solar Fields Fitchburg, WI	Solar	22 MW	Madison Gas & Electric Co
25.2 mi	Sycamore (Wi) Madison, WI	Natural Gas	42 MW	Madison Gas & Electric Co
25.4 mi	Bear Creek (Wi) Lone Rock, WI	Solar	50 MW	Wisconsin Power & Light Co
26.4 mi	Nine Springs Madison, WI	Natural Gas	16 MW	Madison Gas & Electric Co
26.5 mi	Sunnyside Solar Energy Center Fitchburg, WI	Battery Storage	—	Madison Gas & Electric Co
28.2 mi	Tyto Solar Fitchburg, WI	Solar	6 MW	Madison Gas & Electric Co
28.5 mi	Strix Solar Fitchburg, WI	Solar	6 MW	Madison Gas & Electric Co
29.3 mi	Hermsdorf Solar Madison, WI	Solar	8 MW	Madison Gas & Electric Co
30.5 mi	Mcfarland Schools Customer Hosted Mcfarland, WI	Solar	—	Wisconsin Power & Light Co
30.8 mi	Dane County Solar Llc Cottage Grove, WI	Solar	17 MW	Dane County Solar Llc
31.6 mi	Richland Center Renewable Energy Llc Richland Center, WI	Biomass	2 MW	Richland Center Renewable Energy Llc
32.7 mi	Uw Kegonsa Customer Hosted Solar Stoughton, WI	Solar	—	Wisconsin Power & Light Co
33.1 mi	Portage Solar Plant Portage, WI	Solar	12 MW	Portage Solar Plant
33.3 mi	Elroy Solar Mauston, WI	Solar	2 MW	Butter Solar, Llc
33.4 mi	Lemonweir (Oak 1) Mauston, WI	Solar	3 MW	Greenbacker Renewable Energy Corporation
34.9 mi	Ursa Solar, Llc Courtland, WI	Solar	—	Samsung C&t Renewables, Llc
35.2 mi	Glacier Hills Cambria, WI	Wind	162 MW	Wisconsin Electric Power Co
35.6 mi	Sauk Dpc Solar Wonewoc, WI	Solar	1 MW	Socore Energy Llc
38.9 mi	Badger Hollow I Montfort, WI	Solar	150 MW	Wisconsin Public Service Corp
38.9 mi	Badger Hollow Ii Cobb, WI	Solar	150 MW	Wisconsin Electric Power Co
39.6 mi	Boaz Microgrid Battery Muscoda, WI	Other Fossil	4 MW	Wisconsin Power & Light Co
39.7 mi	Montfort Wind Energy Center Montfort, WI	Wind	30 MW	Wisconsin Electric Power Co
40.3 mi	Elroy Elroy, WI	Oil	7 MW	City Of Elroy - (Wi)
40.7 mi	Castle Rock Adams, WI	Hydroelectric	15 MW	Wisconsin River Power Company
41.4 mi	Rockgen Energy Center Cambridge, WI	Natural Gas	561 MW	Dairyland Power Coop
41.5 mi	Argyle Argyle, WI	Oil	2 MW	City Of Argyle - (Wi)
42.4 mi	Red Barn Energy Montfort, WI	Wind	92 MW	Wisconsin Public Service Corp
42.4 mi	Whitetail Wind Farm Montford, WI	Wind	—	Invenergy Services Llc
44.3 mi	Webster Creek (Oak 2) New Lisbon, WI	Solar	2 MW	Greenbacker Renewable Energy Corporation
45.1 mi	New Lisbon Solar New Lisbon, WI	Solar	3 MW	Butter Solar, Llc
45.2 mi	Sheepskin Edgerton, WI	Natural Gas	—	Wisconsin Power & Light Co
45.3 mi	Adams Pv Plant Adams, WI	Solar	8 MW	Adams Pv Plant (Wi)
45.5 mi	New Lisbon New Lisbon, WI	Oil	8 MW	City Of New Lisbon
46.7 mi	North Rock Edgerton, WI	Solar	50 MW	Wisconsin Power & Light Co
47.4 mi	Albany Solar (Wi) Broadhead, WI	Solar	50 MW	Wisconsin Power & Light Co
48.3 mi	Crawfish River Jefferson, WI	Solar	75 MW	Wisconsin Power & Light Co
48.6 mi	Badger State Solar Llc Jefferson, WI	Solar	—	Badger State Solar Llc
48.6 mi	Viola Viola, WI	Oil	1 MW	Village Of Viola - (Wi)
49.0 mi	La Farge La Farge, WI	Oil	2 MW	La Farge Municipal Electric Co
49.5 mi	Whistling Winds Dpc Solar New Lisbon, WI	Solar	2 MW	Socore Energy Llc

Power generation near this area

There are 56 power plants within 50 miles of Prairie Du Sac, Wisconsin (ZIP 53578), with a combined 3,186 MW of nameplate capacity. Solar is the most common fuel type in this area with 28 of the 56 nearby plants. The closest plant is Prairie Du Sac at 1.3 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 Wisconsin, visit the Wisconsin state page.

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