Power Plants Near 66870 — Virgil, KS

28 power plants within 50 miles of ZIP 66870 (Virgil, Kansas). Click any plant for capacity, generation, emissions, and generator-level detail.

Centroid: 37.8976, -96.0329 · County: Greenwood

Nuclear 37%Wind 35%Natural Gas 25%Oil 3%

Distance	Plant	Fuel	Capacity	Operator
25.6 mi	Burlington (Ks) Burlington, KS	Oil	10 MW	City Of Burlington - (Ks)
26.9 mi	Fredonia Solar (Ks) Fredonia, KS	Solar	2 MW	Ppm Solar Llc
27.0 mi	Fredonia (Ks) Fredonia, KS	Oil	3 MW	City Of Fredonia - (Ks)
27.5 mi	Waverly Wind Farm Llc Waverly, KS	Wind	199 MW	Waverly Wind Farm Llc
29.9 mi	Studebaker Fredonia, KS	Solar	1 MW	Today's Power, Inc.
30.1 mi	Wolf Creek Generating Station Burlington, KS	Nuclear	1,296 MW	Wolf Creek Nuclear Optg Corp
30.3 mi	Archer Daniels Midland Fredonia Fredonia, KS	Natural Gas	—	Archer Daniels Midland Co
32.2 mi	Wolf Creek Generator Burlington, KS	Oil	1 MW	4 Rivers Electric Cooperative, Inc.
32.3 mi	Sharpe Waverly, KS	Oil	20 MW	Kansas Electric Power Coop Inc
33.2 mi	Iola Iola, KS	Oil	29 MW	City Of Iola - (Ks)
34.3 mi	Chanute 2 Chanute, KS	Natural Gas	64 MW	City Of Chanute
34.9 mi	Chanute 1 Chanute, KS	Natural Gas	—	City Of Chanute
35.6 mi	Chanute 3 Chanute, KS	Natural Gas	35 MW	City Of Chanute
35.7 mi	Chanute Solar Chanute, KS	Solar	—	Evergy Kansas Central, Inc
35.8 mi	Elk River Wind Beaumont, KS	Wind	150 MW	Avangrid Power Llc
36.9 mi	Caney River Wind Project Howard, KS	Wind	200 MW	Caney River Wind Project
37.9 mi	Emporia Energy Center Emporia, KS	Natural Gas	730 MW	Evergy Kansas Central, Inc
40.1 mi	Reading Wind Project Reading, KS	Wind	200 MW	Southern Power Co
41.3 mi	Thunderbird Generator (Tbird) Emporia, KS	Oil	1 MW	4 Rivers Electric Cooperative, Inc.
41.6 mi	Urbana-Heartland Chanute, KS	Solar	1 MW	Today's Power, Inc.
44.4 mi	Prairie Queen Wind Farm Moran, KS	Wind	199 MW	Prairie Queen Wind Farm Llc
45.5 mi	Degraff Butler Electric Burns, KS	Solar	1 MW	Today's Power, Inc.
45.6 mi	Americus Emporia, KS	Solar	1 MW	Today's Power, Inc.
45.8 mi	Neosho Ridge Wind Energy Center Galesburg, KS	Wind	301 MW	Empire District Electric Co
46.6 mi	El Dorado Refinery El Dorado, KS	Natural Gas	39 MW	Frontier El Dorado Refinery Llc
48.9 mi	Erie Energy Center Erie, KS	Oil	20 MW	City Of Erie - (Ks)
49.1 mi	Erie Erie, KS	Oil	4 MW	City Of Erie - (Ks)
50.0 mi	Garnett Municipal Garnett, KS	Oil	12 MW	City Of Garnett - (Ks)

Power generation near this area

There are 28 power plants within 50 miles of Virgil, Kansas (ZIP 66870), with a combined 3,520 MW of nameplate capacity. Oil is the most common fuel type in this area with 9 of the 28 nearby plants. The closest plant is Burlington (Ks) at 25.6 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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