Power Plants Near 53596 — Sun Prairie, WI

60 power plants within 50 miles of ZIP 53596 (Sun Prairie, Wisconsin). Click any plant for capacity, generation, emissions, and generator-level detail.

Centroid: 43.1924, -89.2629 · County: Dane

Natural Gas 59%Coal 22%Solar 10%Wind 7%

Distance	Plant	Fuel	Capacity	Operator
4.0 mi	Dane County Airport Solar Madison, WI	Solar	11 MW	Madison Gas & Electric Co
6.0 mi	Sycamore (Wi) Madison, WI	Natural Gas	42 MW	Madison Gas & Electric Co
7.2 mi	Galactic Wind Waunakee, WI	Wind	10 MW	Galactic Wind
7.5 mi	Vienna Walbec Customer Hosted Waunakee, WI	Solar	—	Wisconsin Power & Light Co
9.2 mi	Hermsdorf Solar Madison, WI	Solar	8 MW	Madison Gas & Electric Co
9.6 mi	Diesel Generators Madison, WI	Oil	54 MW	Madison Gas & Electric Co
9.6 mi	Blount Street Madison, WI	Natural Gas	100 MW	Madison Gas & Electric Co
9.8 mi	Capitol Heat And Power Madison, WI	Oil	2 MW	State Of Wisconsin
10.1 mi	Dane County Solar Llc Cottage Grove, WI	Solar	17 MW	Dane County Solar Llc
10.9 mi	Uw Madison Charter Street Plant Madison, WI	Natural Gas	11 MW	State Of Wisconsin
11.5 mi	West Campus Cogeneration Facility Madison, WI	Natural Gas	169 MW	Madison Gas & Electric Co
11.7 mi	Mcfarland Schools Customer Hosted Mcfarland, WI	Solar	—	Wisconsin Power & Light Co
11.7 mi	Nine Springs Madison, WI	Natural Gas	16 MW	Madison Gas & Electric Co
14.6 mi	Middleton Airport Solar Middleton, WI	Solar	6 MW	Madison Gas & Electric Co
15.1 mi	Middleton Biogas Solar, Llc Middleton, WI	Solar	2 MW	Middleton Biogas Solar, Llc
15.3 mi	Tyto Solar Fitchburg, WI	Solar	6 MW	Madison Gas & Electric Co
15.8 mi	Fitchburg Madison, WI	Natural Gas	58 MW	Madison Gas & Electric Co
16.3 mi	Uw Kegonsa Customer Hosted Solar Stoughton, WI	Solar	—	Wisconsin Power & Light Co
16.6 mi	Strix Solar Fitchburg, WI	Solar	6 MW	Madison Gas & Electric Co
16.7 mi	O'brien Solar Fields Fitchburg, WI	Solar	22 MW	Madison Gas & Electric Co
16.8 mi	Sunnyside Solar Energy Center Fitchburg, WI	Battery Storage	—	Madison Gas & Electric Co
18.4 mi	Rockgen Energy Center Cambridge, WI	Natural Gas	561 MW	Dairyland Power Coop
20.5 mi	Epic Verona Verona, WI	Solar	46 MW	Epic Hosting, Llc
21.8 mi	Columbia (Wi) Pardeville, WI	Coal	1,112 MW	Wisconsin Power & Light Co
22.8 mi	Ursa Solar, Llc Courtland, WI	Solar	—	Samsung C&t Renewables, Llc
23.6 mi	Crawfish River Jefferson, WI	Solar	75 MW	Wisconsin Power & Light Co
23.7 mi	Badger State Solar Llc Jefferson, WI	Solar	—	Badger State Solar Llc
24.8 mi	Prairie Du Sac Prairie Du Sac, WI	Hydroelectric	33 MW	Wisconsin Power & Light Co
25.9 mi	Sheepskin Edgerton, WI	Natural Gas	—	Wisconsin Power & Light Co
26.3 mi	Glacier Hills Cambria, WI	Wind	162 MW	Wisconsin Electric Power Co
26.4 mi	Jefferson Solar Park Jefferson, WI	Solar	1 MW	Concord New Energy
27.3 mi	Portage Industrial Battery Portage, WI	Other Fossil	5 MW	Wisconsin Power & Light Co
27.3 mi	Deertrack Park Gas Recovery Watertown, WI	Biomass	6 MW	Wm Renewable Energy Llc
27.6 mi	North Rock Edgerton, WI	Solar	50 MW	Wisconsin Power & Light Co
28.2 mi	Jones Dairy Fort Atkinson, WI	Solar	2 MW	Wisconsin Electric Power Co
28.7 mi	Portage Solar Plant Portage, WI	Solar	12 MW	Portage Solar Plant
28.7 mi	Hackbarth Solar Wi, Llc Fort Atkinson, WI	Solar	5 MW	Wisconsin Electric Power Co
28.9 mi	Concord Watertown, WI	Natural Gas	382 MW	Wisconsin Electric Power Co
31.8 mi	Beaver Dam Solar Dodge, WI	Solar	50 MW	Wisconsin Power & Light Co
34.6 mi	Janesville Community Solar Janesville, WI	Solar	—	Wisconsin Power & Light Co
34.6 mi	Rock County Customer Hosted Solar Janesville, WI	Solar	—	Wisconsin Power & Light Co
35.6 mi	Whitewater Generating Station Whitewater, WI	Natural Gas	284 MW	Wisconsin Electric Power Co
35.6 mi	Ameresco Janesville Janesville, WI	Biomass	3 MW	Ameresco Janesville Llc
36.8 mi	Albany Solar (Wi) Broadhead, WI	Solar	50 MW	Wisconsin Power & Light Co
39.7 mi	Kilbourn Wisconsin Dells, WI	Hydroelectric	10 MW	Wisconsin Power & Light Co
40.0 mi	Waupun Correctional Central Heating Plt Waupun, WI	Oil	4 MW	State Of Wisconsin
41.9 mi	Butler Ridge Mayville, WI	Wind	54 MW	Butler Ridge Wind Energy Center
42.6 mi	Nortera Customer Hosted Solar Fairwater, WI	Solar	—	Wisconsin Power & Light Co
43.6 mi	West Riverside Energy Center Beloit, WI	Natural Gas	728 MW	Wisconsin Power & Light Co
43.6 mi	Riverside Energy Center Beloit, WI	Natural Gas	675 MW	Wisconsin Power & Light Co
43.8 mi	Rock River Beloit, WI	Natural Gas	—	Wisconsin Power & Light Co
44.0 mi	Hqc Rock River Solar Power Gen Station Beloit, WI	Solar	2 MW	Hqc Rock River Solar Power Generation Station Llc
44.1 mi	Wppi Hartford Dg Hartford, WI	Oil	—	Wppi Energy
44.9 mi	Paddock Solar Beloit, WI	Solar	65 MW	Wisconsin Power & Light Co
45.7 mi	Argyle Argyle, WI	Oil	2 MW	City Of Argyle - (Wi)
46.3 mi	Beloit Memorial Hospital Power Plant Beloit, WI	Natural Gas	3 MW	Beloit Memorial Hospital
47.6 mi	Darien Solar Darien, WI	Solar	—	Wisconsin Electric Power Co
48.3 mi	Forward Wind Energy Center Brownsville, WI	Wind	129 MW	Wisconsin Public Service Corp
48.8 mi	Blackhawk Beloit, WI	Natural Gas	—	Wisconsin Power & Light Co
48.9 mi	Bear Creek (Wi) Lone Rock, WI	Solar	50 MW	Wisconsin Power & Light Co

Power generation near this area

There are 60 power plants within 50 miles of Sun Prairie, Wisconsin (ZIP 53596), with a combined 5,100 MW of nameplate capacity. Solar is the most common fuel type in this area with 29 of the 60 nearby plants. The closest plant is Dane County Airport Solar at 4.0 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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