Power Plants Near 57037 — Irene, SD

12 power plants within 50 miles of ZIP 57037 (Irene, South Dakota). Click any plant for capacity, generation, emissions, and generator-level detail.

Centroid: 43.1027, -97.2558 · County: Clay

Natural Gas 39%Wind 38%Oil 12%Hydroelectric 12%

Distance	Plant	Fuel	Capacity	Operator
14.3 mi	Prevailing Wind Park Lesterville, SD	Wind	220 MW	Aes Distributed Energy
15.3 mi	Yankton Yankton, SD	Natural Gas	13 MW	Northwestern Energy - (Sd)
19.5 mi	Spirit Mound Vermillion, SD	Oil	135 MW	Basin Electric Power Coop
20.9 mi	Gavins Point Crofton, NE	Hydroelectric	132 MW	Usace-Omaha
23.8 mi	Poet Biorefining - Chancellor Chancellor, SD	Natural Gas	5 MW	Poet Biorefining- Chancellor
32.4 mi	Crofton Bluffs Wind Llc Bloomfield, NE	Wind	40 MW	Crofton Bluffs Wind, Llc
33.5 mi	Elkhorn Ridge Wind Llc Bloomfield, NE	Wind	81 MW	Elkhorn Ridge Wind, Llc
39.3 mi	Poet Biorefining - Hudson Hudson, SD	Natural Gas	4 MW	Poet Biorefining - Hudson
41.7 mi	Beethoven Wind Tripp, SD	Wind	80 MW	Northwestern Energy - (Sd)
46.4 mi	Pathfinder Sioux Falls, SD	Natural Gas	—	Northern States Power Co - Minnesota
46.6 mi	Angus Anson Sioux Falls, SD	Natural Gas	406 MW	Northern States Power Co - Minnesota
47.2 mi	Laurel Laurel, NE	Natural Gas	4 MW	City Of Laurel - (Ne)

Power generation near this area

There are 12 power plants within 50 miles of Irene, South Dakota (ZIP 57037), with a combined 1,120 MW of nameplate capacity. Natural Gas is the most common fuel type in this area with 6 of the 12 nearby plants. The closest plant is Prevailing Wind Park at 14.3 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 South Dakota, visit the South Dakota state page.

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