Power Plants Near 62285 — Smithton, IL

53 power plants within 50 miles of ZIP 62285 (Smithton, Illinois). Click any plant for capacity, generation, emissions, and generator-level detail.

Centroid: 38.4231, -89.9896 · County: St. Clair

Coal 84%Natural Gas 12%Solar 3%

Distance	Plant	Fuel	Capacity	Operator
4.1 mi	Freeburg Freeburg, IL	Oil	16 MW	Village Of Freeburg - (Il)
4.6 mi	Aes Belleville Solar Llc Belleville, IL	Solar	10 MW	Aes Distributed Energy
4.9 mi	Schmidt Csg 1 Belleville, IL	Solar	2 MW	Sunvest Solar Llc
11.0 mi	Waterloo Waterloo, IL	Natural Gas	30 MW	City Of Waterloo - (Il)
13.3 mi	Sv Csg East St Louis East St Louis, IL	Solar	—	Sv Csg East St Louis Llc
14.3 mi	Red Bud Red Bud, IL	Oil	15 MW	City Of Red Bud - (Il)
14.8 mi	St. Clair Solar 3 Washington Park, IL	Solar	2 MW	Pivot Energy
14.9 mi	St. Clair Solar 5 Lebanon, IL	Solar	—	Pivot Energy
15.7 mi	Scs American Bottoms 009885 Sauget, Llc Sauget, IL	Solar	2 MW	Arevon Energy, Inc.
16.8 mi	Baldwin Energy Complex Baldwin, IL	Coal	1,260 MW	Dynegy Midwest Generation Inc
16.9 mi	Baldwin Solar Bess Baldwin, IL	Solar	70 MW	Vistra Corp
17.0 mi	Anheuser-Busch St Louis St. Louis, MO	Natural Gas	26 MW	Anheuser-Busch Inc
17.9 mi	Southwestern Bell Telephone St. Louis, MO	Oil	17 MW	At&t
18.0 mi	Trigen St. Louis St Louis, MO	Natural Gas	34 MW	Centerstream Stl, Llc
18.1 mi	Milam Gas Recovery East St. Lois, IL	Natural Gas	2 MW	Wm Illinois Renewable Energy Llc
18.5 mi	Sv Csg Wagner B Llc Baldwin, IL	Solar	2 MW	Sunvest Solar Llc
18.8 mi	Meramec St. Louis, MO	Coal	—	Union Electric Co - (Mo)
18.8 mi	Castle Bluff Energy Center St. Louis, MO	Natural Gas	—	Union Electric Co - (Mo)
19.1 mi	Trenton West Trenton, IL	Solar	2 MW	Generate Capital
19.5 mi	Venice Venice, IL	Natural Gas	586 MW	Union Electric Co - (Mo)
19.5 mi	Trenton East Trenton, IL	Solar	2 MW	Generate Capital
20.1 mi	Prairie State Generating Station Marissa, IL	Coal	1,766 MW	Prairie State Generating Co Llc
20.1 mi	Ikea St. Louis 410 St. Louis, MO	Solar	1 MW	Ikea Property Inc
20.4 mi	Granite City Works Granite City, IL	Natural Gas	78 MW	United States Steel Granite City Works
20.7 mi	Renewable Energy Center At Bjh St Louis, MO	Solar	2 MW	Union Electric Co - (Mo)
21.5 mi	Stallings Granite City, IL	Natural Gas	—	Dynegy Midwest Generation Inc
22.5 mi	Mulberry Solar, Llc Granite City, IL	Solar	2 MW	Reactivate
23.9 mi	Sv Csg Wagner A Llc Sparta, IL	Solar	2 MW	Sunvest Solar Llc
25.0 mi	Rush Island Festus, MO	Coal	1,242 MW	Union Electric Co - (Mo)
26.7 mi	Prairie State Solar Project Swanwick Township, IL	Solar	99 MW	Prairie State Solar, Llc
27.0 mi	Edwardsville Solar Ii Edwardsville, IL	Solar	2 MW	Edwardsville Solar Ii, Llc
27.5 mi	Highland Highland, IL	Oil	18 MW	City Of Highland
27.5 mi	Imea Highland Highland, IL	Oil	4 MW	City Of Highland
28.2 mi	Breese Breese, IL	Oil	17 MW	City Of Breese - (Il)
28.6 mi	Sv Csg Roxana 1 Roxana, IL	Solar	—	Sv Csg Roxana 1 Llc
31.4 mi	Wood River Alton, IL	Coal	—	Dynegy Midwest Generation Inc
34.7 mi	Howard Bend Chesterfield, MO	Oil	—	Union Electric Co - (Mo)
36.5 mi	Carlyle Carlyle, IL	Oil	12 MW	City Of Carlyle - (Il)
37.7 mi	Sioux West Alton, MO	Coal	1,099 MW	Union Electric Co - (Mo)
40.4 mi	Clinton Solar 4 Llc Csg Carlyle, IL	Solar	2 MW	Clinton Solar 4 Llc
40.5 mi	Clinton Solar 4b Carlyle, IL	Solar	2 MW	Pivot Energy
41.0 mi	Pinckneyville Pinckneyville, IL	Natural Gas	380 MW	Union Electric Co - (Mo)
43.4 mi	Ashley Solar Llc Pv Ashley, IL	Solar	—	Ashley Solar Llc Pv
45.5 mi	Big Creek Solar (Il) Brighton, IL	Solar	5 MW	Big Creek Solar (Il), Llc
45.9 mi	Clinton Solar 2b Centralia, IL	Solar	2 MW	Pivot Energy
45.9 mi	Clinton Solar 2 Centralia, IL	Solar	2 MW	Pivot Energy
45.9 mi	Ruby Solar, Llc Shattuc, IL	Solar	—	Birch Creek Development
46.5 mi	O'fallon Renewable Energy Center O'fallon, MO	Solar	5 MW	Union Electric Co - (Mo)
46.9 mi	Labadie Labadie, MO	Coal	2,389 MW	Union Electric Co - (Mo)
46.9 mi	Sandoval Centralia, IL	Solar	2 MW	Sandoval Holdco, Llc
49.3 mi	Marion Solar 4b Llc Sandoval, IL	Solar	2 MW	Pivot Energy
49.4 mi	Kimmel Road Solar, Llc Du Quoin, IL	Solar	50 MW	Birch Creek Power, Llc
49.7 mi	Marion Solar 2 Sandoval, IL	Solar	1 MW	Pivot Energy

Power generation near this area

There are 53 power plants within 50 miles of Smithton, Illinois (ZIP 62285), with a combined 9,264 MW of nameplate capacity. Solar is the most common fuel type in this area with 29 of the 53 nearby plants. The closest plant is Freeburg at 4.1 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 Illinois, visit the Illinois state page.

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