Power Plants Near 68736 — Fordyce, NE

18 power plants within 50 miles of ZIP 68736 (Fordyce, Nebraska). Click any plant for capacity, generation, emissions, and generator-level detail.

Centroid: 42.7309, -97.3567 · County: Cedar

Wind 83%Oil 8%Hydroelectric 7%

Distance	Plant	Fuel	Capacity	Operator
10.3 mi	Gavins Point Crofton, NE	Hydroelectric	132 MW	Usace-Omaha
11.2 mi	Yankton Yankton, SD	Natural Gas	13 MW	Northwestern Energy - (Sd)
11.6 mi	Crofton Bluffs Wind Llc Bloomfield, NE	Wind	40 MW	Crofton Bluffs Wind, Llc
13.5 mi	Elkhorn Ridge Wind Llc Bloomfield, NE	Wind	81 MW	Elkhorn Ridge Wind, Llc
21.8 mi	Spirit Mound Vermillion, SD	Oil	135 MW	Basin Electric Power Coop
22.9 mi	Prevailing Wind Park Lesterville, SD	Wind	220 MW	Aes Distributed Energy
24.8 mi	Laurel Laurel, NE	Natural Gas	4 MW	City Of Laurel - (Ne)
29.0 mi	Sholes Wind Energy Center Randolph, NE	Wind	160 MW	Sholes Wind Energy Center, Llc
33.4 mi	Haystack Wind Project, Llc Carroll, NE	Wind	298 MW	Haystack Wind Project, Llc
36.4 mi	Rattlesnake Creek Wind Project Dixon, NE	Wind	318 MW	Rattlesnake Creek Wind Project, Llc
38.8 mi	Wayne Ic Wayne, NE	Oil	22 MW	City Of Wayne
40.1 mi	Plum Creek Wind Project (Ne) Winside, NE	Wind	230 MW	Plum Creek Wind, Llc
40.7 mi	Wakefield Wakefield, NE	Oil	4 MW	City Of Wakefield - (Ne)
44.8 mi	Emerson Emerson, NE	Natural Gas	2 MW	City Of Emerson - (Ne)
47.1 mi	Beethoven Wind Tripp, SD	Wind	80 MW	Northwestern Energy - (Sd)
48.5 mi	Poet Biorefining - Chancellor Chancellor, SD	Natural Gas	5 MW	Poet Biorefining- Chancellor
48.8 mi	South 49th 013445 Scs Norfolk, Llc Norfolk, NE	Solar	11 MW	Arevon Energy, Inc.
48.9 mi	Upstream Wind Energy Llc Neligh, NE	Wind	203 MW	Invenergy Services Llc

Power generation near this area

There are 18 power plants within 50 miles of Fordyce, Nebraska (ZIP 68736), with a combined 1,957 MW of nameplate capacity. Wind is the most common fuel type in this area with 9 of the 18 nearby plants. The closest plant is Gavins Point at 10.3 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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