Power Plants Near 57073 — Wakonda, SD

14 power plants within 50 miles of ZIP 57073 (Wakonda, South Dakota). Click any plant for capacity, generation, emissions, and generator-level detail.

Centroid: 42.9960, -97.0694 · County: Clay

Wind 54%Natural Gas 28%Oil 9%Hydroelectric 9%

Distance	Plant	Fuel	Capacity	Operator
7.9 mi	Spirit Mound Vermillion, SD	Oil	135 MW	Basin Electric Power Coop
16.0 mi	Yankton Yankton, SD	Natural Gas	13 MW	Northwestern Energy - (Sd)
23.2 mi	Gavins Point Crofton, NE	Hydroelectric	132 MW	Usace-Omaha
23.3 mi	Prevailing Wind Park Lesterville, SD	Wind	220 MW	Aes Distributed Energy
26.5 mi	Poet Biorefining - Chancellor Chancellor, SD	Natural Gas	5 MW	Poet Biorefining- Chancellor
30.7 mi	Poet Biorefining - Hudson Hudson, SD	Natural Gas	4 MW	Poet Biorefining - Hudson
33.0 mi	Crofton Bluffs Wind Llc Bloomfield, NE	Wind	40 MW	Crofton Bluffs Wind, Llc
34.6 mi	Elkhorn Ridge Wind Llc Bloomfield, NE	Wind	81 MW	Elkhorn Ridge Wind, Llc
39.1 mi	Laurel Laurel, NE	Natural Gas	4 MW	City Of Laurel - (Ne)
44.6 mi	Rattlesnake Creek Wind Project Dixon, NE	Wind	318 MW	Rattlesnake Creek Wind Project, Llc
47.2 mi	Pathfinder Sioux Falls, SD	Natural Gas	—	Northern States Power Co - Minnesota
47.3 mi	Angus Anson Sioux Falls, SD	Natural Gas	406 MW	Northern States Power Co - Minnesota
49.0 mi	South Sioux City Solar Dakota, NE	Solar	2 MW	Tesla Inc.
49.6 mi	Sholes Wind Energy Center Randolph, NE	Wind	160 MW	Sholes Wind Energy Center, Llc

Power generation near this area

There are 14 power plants within 50 miles of Wakonda, South Dakota (ZIP 57073), with a combined 1,520 MW of nameplate capacity. Natural Gas is the most common fuel type in this area with 6 of the 14 nearby plants. The closest plant is Spirit Mound at 7.9 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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