Power Plants Near 68760 — Niobrara, NE

15 power plants within 50 miles of ZIP 68760 (Niobrara, Nebraska). Click any plant for capacity, generation, emissions, and generator-level detail.

Centroid: 42.7391, -97.9248 · County: Knox

Wind 75%Hydroelectric 19%Oil 6%

Distance	Plant	Fuel	Capacity	Operator
15.8 mi	Elkhorn Ridge Wind Llc Bloomfield, NE	Wind	81 MW	Elkhorn Ridge Wind, Llc
17.7 mi	Crofton Bluffs Wind Llc Bloomfield, NE	Wind	40 MW	Crofton Bluffs Wind, Llc
23.7 mi	Gavins Point Crofton, NE	Hydroelectric	132 MW	Usace-Omaha
27.1 mi	Grande Prairie Wind Farm O'neill, NE	Wind	400 MW	Bhe Renewables, Llc
28.9 mi	Prevailing Wind Park Lesterville, SD	Wind	220 MW	Aes Distributed Energy
30.1 mi	Beethoven Wind Tripp, SD	Wind	80 MW	Northwestern Energy - (Sd)
30.9 mi	Yankton Yankton, SD	Natural Gas	13 MW	Northwestern Energy - (Sd)
37.4 mi	Spencer Hydro Spencer, NE	Hydroelectric	—	Nebraska Public Power District
38.4 mi	Upstream Wind Energy Llc Neligh, NE	Wind	203 MW	Invenergy Services Llc
39.0 mi	Fort Randall Pickstown, SD	Hydroelectric	320 MW	Usace-Omaha
41.0 mi	Sholes Wind Energy Center Randolph, NE	Wind	160 MW	Sholes Wind Energy Center, Llc
47.5 mi	Laurel Laurel, NE	Natural Gas	4 MW	City Of Laurel - (Ne)
48.6 mi	Spirit Mound Vermillion, SD	Oil	135 MW	Basin Electric Power Coop
49.5 mi	Thunderhead Wind Energy Llc Boone, NE	Wind	300 MW	Invenergy Services Llc
49.6 mi	Haystack Wind Project, Llc Carroll, NE	Wind	298 MW	Haystack Wind Project, Llc

Power generation near this area

There are 15 power plants within 50 miles of Niobrara, Nebraska (ZIP 68760), with a combined 2,386 MW of nameplate capacity. Wind is the most common fuel type in this area with 9 of the 15 nearby plants. The closest plant is Elkhorn Ridge Wind Llc at 15.8 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.

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