Power Plants Near 66783 — Yates Center, KS

29 power plants within 50 miles of ZIP 66783 (Yates Center, Kansas). Click any plant for capacity, generation, emissions, and generator-level detail.

Centroid: 37.8801, -95.7289 · County: Woodson

Wind 39%Nuclear 35%Natural Gas 23%Oil 3%

Distance	Plant	Fuel	Capacity	Operator
16.8 mi	Iola Iola, KS	Oil	29 MW	City Of Iola - (Ks)
19.5 mi	Chanute 2 Chanute, KS	Natural Gas	64 MW	City Of Chanute
20.2 mi	Chanute 1 Chanute, KS	Natural Gas	—	City Of Chanute
21.7 mi	Burlington (Ks) Burlington, KS	Oil	10 MW	City Of Burlington - (Ks)
21.9 mi	Chanute 3 Chanute, KS	Natural Gas	35 MW	City Of Chanute
22.0 mi	Chanute Solar Chanute, KS	Solar	—	Evergy Kansas Central, Inc
23.5 mi	Fredonia (Ks) Fredonia, KS	Oil	3 MW	City Of Fredonia - (Ks)
23.5 mi	Fredonia Solar (Ks) Fredonia, KS	Solar	2 MW	Ppm Solar Llc
24.9 mi	Wolf Creek Generating Station Burlington, KS	Nuclear	1,296 MW	Wolf Creek Nuclear Optg Corp
26.0 mi	Studebaker Fredonia, KS	Solar	1 MW	Today's Power, Inc.
26.4 mi	Waverly Wind Farm Llc Waverly, KS	Wind	199 MW	Waverly Wind Farm Llc
26.5 mi	Archer Daniels Midland Fredonia Fredonia, KS	Natural Gas	—	Archer Daniels Midland Co
27.3 mi	Wolf Creek Generator Burlington, KS	Oil	1 MW	4 Rivers Electric Cooperative, Inc.
27.4 mi	Sharpe Waverly, KS	Oil	20 MW	Kansas Electric Power Coop Inc
27.5 mi	Urbana-Heartland Chanute, KS	Solar	1 MW	Today's Power, Inc.
28.3 mi	Prairie Queen Wind Farm Moran, KS	Wind	199 MW	Prairie Queen Wind Farm Llc
33.4 mi	Neosho Ridge Wind Energy Center Galesburg, KS	Wind	301 MW	Empire District Electric Co
34.2 mi	Erie Energy Center Erie, KS	Oil	20 MW	City Of Erie - (Ks)
34.5 mi	Erie Erie, KS	Oil	4 MW	City Of Erie - (Ks)
37.7 mi	Garnett Municipal Garnett, KS	Oil	12 MW	City Of Garnett - (Ks)
38.0 mi	East Kansas Agri-Energy, Llc Garnett, KS	Other Fossil	2 MW	East Kansas Agri-Energy, Llc
40.1 mi	Jayhawk Wind Energy Center Hepler, KS	Wind	197 MW	Invenergy Services Llc
41.8 mi	Kingbird Solar Energy Llc Uniontown, KS	Battery Storage	—	Kingbird Solar Energy Llc
43.1 mi	Reading Wind Project Reading, KS	Wind	200 MW	Southern Power Co
43.2 mi	Emporia Energy Center Emporia, KS	Natural Gas	730 MW	Evergy Kansas Central, Inc
47.7 mi	Caney River Wind Project Howard, KS	Wind	200 MW	Caney River Wind Project
48.0 mi	Greenbush-Heartland Girard, KS	Solar	1 MW	Today's Power, Inc.
49.5 mi	Elk River Wind Beaumont, KS	Wind	150 MW	Avangrid Power Llc
49.7 mi	Thunderbird Generator (Tbird) Emporia, KS	Oil	1 MW	4 Rivers Electric Cooperative, Inc.

Power generation near this area

There are 29 power plants within 50 miles of Yates Center, Kansas (ZIP 66783), with a combined 3,680 MW of nameplate capacity. Oil is the most common fuel type in this area with 9 of the 29 nearby plants. The closest plant is Iola at 16.8 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 Kansas, visit the Kansas state page.

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