Power Plants Near 57072 — Volin, SD

13 power plants within 50 miles of ZIP 57072 (Volin, South Dakota). Click any plant for capacity, generation, emissions, and generator-level detail.

Centroid: 42.9572, -97.1803 · County: Yankton

Wind 80%Oil 9%Hydroelectric 9%

Distance	Plant	Fuel	Capacity	Operator
9.8 mi	Yankton Yankton, SD	Natural Gas	13 MW	Northwestern Energy - (Sd)
10.4 mi	Spirit Mound Vermillion, SD	Oil	135 MW	Basin Electric Power Coop
17.0 mi	Gavins Point Crofton, NE	Hydroelectric	132 MW	Usace-Omaha
18.4 mi	Prevailing Wind Park Lesterville, SD	Wind	220 MW	Aes Distributed Energy
27.0 mi	Crofton Bluffs Wind Llc Bloomfield, NE	Wind	40 MW	Crofton Bluffs Wind, Llc
28.6 mi	Elkhorn Ridge Wind Llc Bloomfield, NE	Wind	81 MW	Elkhorn Ridge Wind, Llc
30.6 mi	Poet Biorefining - Chancellor Chancellor, SD	Natural Gas	5 MW	Poet Biorefining- Chancellor
36.7 mi	Laurel Laurel, NE	Natural Gas	4 MW	City Of Laurel - (Ne)
36.8 mi	Poet Biorefining - Hudson Hudson, SD	Natural Gas	4 MW	Poet Biorefining - Hudson
44.0 mi	Rattlesnake Creek Wind Project Dixon, NE	Wind	318 MW	Rattlesnake Creek Wind Project, Llc
45.6 mi	Sholes Wind Energy Center Randolph, NE	Wind	160 MW	Sholes Wind Energy Center, Llc
47.5 mi	Beethoven Wind Tripp, SD	Wind	80 MW	Northwestern Energy - (Sd)
48.0 mi	Haystack Wind Project, Llc Carroll, NE	Wind	298 MW	Haystack Wind Project, Llc

Power generation near this area

There are 13 power plants within 50 miles of Volin, South Dakota (ZIP 57072), with a combined 1,490 MW of nameplate capacity. Wind is the most common fuel type in this area with 7 of the 13 nearby plants. The closest plant is Yankton at 9.8 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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