Power Plants Near 68636 — Elgin, NE

19 power plants within 50 miles of ZIP 68636 (Elgin, Nebraska). Click any plant for capacity, generation, emissions, and generator-level detail.

Centroid: 41.9732, -98.0751 · County: Antelope

Wind 99%

Distance	Plant	Fuel	Capacity	Operator
1.5 mi	Prairie Breeze Elgin, NE	Wind	207 MW	Sunedison Llc
6.9 mi	Laredo Ridge Wind Llc Petersburg, NE	Wind	80 MW	Laredo Ridge Wind Llc
7.0 mi	Prairie Breeze Ii Elgin, NE	Wind	73 MW	Invenergy Services Llc
7.0 mi	Prairie Breeze Iii Elgin, NE	Wind	36 MW	Invenergy Services Llc
9.5 mi	Tpw Petersburg Petersburg, NE	Wind	41 MW	Tpw Petersburg Llc
10.4 mi	Thunderhead Wind Energy Llc Boone, NE	Wind	300 MW	Invenergy Services Llc
15.6 mi	Upstream Wind Energy Llc Neligh, NE	Wind	203 MW	Invenergy Services Llc
19.2 mi	Emerick Wind Emerick, NE	Wind	—	Emerick Wind, Llc
25.2 mi	Spalding Spalding, NE	Oil	2 MW	Village Of Spalding - (Ne)
30.7 mi	South 49th 013445 Scs Norfolk, Llc Norfolk, NE	Solar	11 MW	Arevon Energy, Inc.
33.3 mi	Madison Utilities Madison, NE	Oil	6 MW	City Of Madison - (Ne)
33.5 mi	Madison Solar (Ne) Madison, NE	Solar	—	Mmps1, Llc
40.7 mi	Creston Ridge Ii, Llc Creston, NE	Wind	7 MW	Creston Ridge Ii, Llc
40.9 mi	Creston Ridge Wind Farm Creston, NE	Wind	7 MW	Creston Ridge, Llc
41.3 mi	Monroe (Ne) Monroe, NE	Hydroelectric	8 MW	Loup River Public Power Dist
43.3 mi	Sholes Wind Energy Center Randolph, NE	Wind	160 MW	Sholes Wind Energy Center, Llc
46.5 mi	Plum Creek Wind Project (Ne) Winside, NE	Wind	230 MW	Plum Creek Wind, Llc
47.4 mi	Grande Prairie Wind Farm O'neill, NE	Wind	400 MW	Bhe Renewables, Llc
49.3 mi	Haystack Wind Project, Llc Carroll, NE	Wind	298 MW	Haystack Wind Project, Llc

Power generation near this area

There are 19 power plants within 50 miles of Elgin, Nebraska (ZIP 68636), with a combined 2,067 MW of nameplate capacity. Wind is the most common fuel type in this area with 14 of the 19 nearby plants. The closest plant is Prairie Breeze at 1.5 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 Nebraska, visit the Nebraska state page.

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