Power Plants Near 57052 — Olivet, SD

10 power plants within 50 miles of ZIP 57052 (Olivet, South Dakota). Click any plant for capacity, generation, emissions, and generator-level detail.

Centroid: 43.2928, -97.7184 · County: Hutchinson

Hydroelectric 44%Wind 41%Oil 13%Natural Gas 2%

Distance	Plant	Fuel	Capacity	Operator
20.0 mi	Prevailing Wind Park Lesterville, SD	Wind	220 MW	Aes Distributed Energy
20.4 mi	Beethoven Wind Tripp, SD	Wind	80 MW	Northwestern Energy - (Sd)
32.9 mi	Gavins Point Crofton, NE	Hydroelectric	132 MW	Usace-Omaha
33.2 mi	Yankton Yankton, SD	Natural Gas	13 MW	Northwestern Energy - (Sd)
38.5 mi	Poet Biorefining - Chancellor Chancellor, SD	Natural Gas	5 MW	Poet Biorefining- Chancellor
40.1 mi	Poet Bioprocessing- Mitchell Mitchell, SD	Natural Gas	4 MW	Poet Bioprocessing- Mitchell
41.4 mi	Elkhorn Ridge Wind Llc Bloomfield, NE	Wind	81 MW	Elkhorn Ridge Wind, Llc
41.7 mi	Crofton Bluffs Wind Llc Bloomfield, NE	Wind	40 MW	Crofton Bluffs Wind, Llc
44.9 mi	Fort Randall Pickstown, SD	Hydroelectric	320 MW	Usace-Omaha
45.8 mi	Spirit Mound Vermillion, SD	Oil	135 MW	Basin Electric Power Coop

Power generation near this area

There are 10 power plants within 50 miles of Olivet, South Dakota (ZIP 57052), with a combined 1,031 MW of nameplate capacity. Wind is the most common fuel type in this area with 4 of the 10 nearby plants. The closest plant is Prevailing Wind Park at 20.0 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 South Dakota, visit the South Dakota state page.

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