Power Plants Near 68764 — Orchard, NE

16 power plants within 50 miles of ZIP 68764 (Orchard, Nebraska). Click any plant for capacity, generation, emissions, and generator-level detail.

Centroid: 42.3399, -98.2409 · County: Antelope

Wind 99%

Distance	Plant	Fuel	Capacity	Operator
17.7 mi	Upstream Wind Energy Llc Neligh, NE	Wind	203 MW	Invenergy Services Llc
19.2 mi	Thunderhead Wind Energy Llc Boone, NE	Wind	300 MW	Invenergy Services Llc
20.8 mi	Grande Prairie Wind Farm O'neill, NE	Wind	400 MW	Bhe Renewables, Llc
24.4 mi	Prairie Breeze Ii Elgin, NE	Wind	73 MW	Invenergy Services Llc
24.4 mi	Prairie Breeze Iii Elgin, NE	Wind	36 MW	Invenergy Services Llc
28.1 mi	Prairie Breeze Elgin, NE	Wind	207 MW	Sunedison Llc
33.6 mi	Laredo Ridge Wind Llc Petersburg, NE	Wind	80 MW	Laredo Ridge Wind Llc
35.8 mi	Tpw Petersburg Petersburg, NE	Wind	41 MW	Tpw Petersburg Llc
38.7 mi	Spencer Hydro Spencer, NE	Hydroelectric	—	Nebraska Public Power District
40.2 mi	Elkhorn Ridge Wind Llc Bloomfield, NE	Wind	81 MW	Elkhorn Ridge Wind, Llc
41.0 mi	Emerick Wind Emerick, NE	Wind	—	Emerick Wind, Llc
41.8 mi	Crofton Bluffs Wind Llc Bloomfield, NE	Wind	40 MW	Crofton Bluffs Wind, Llc
44.3 mi	South 49th 013445 Scs Norfolk, Llc Norfolk, NE	Solar	11 MW	Arevon Energy, Inc.
44.8 mi	Sholes Wind Energy Center Randolph, NE	Wind	160 MW	Sholes Wind Energy Center, Llc
46.0 mi	Spalding Spalding, NE	Oil	2 MW	Village Of Spalding - (Ne)
49.4 mi	Stuart (Ne) Stuart, NE	Oil	2 MW	City Of Stuart - (Ne)

Power generation near this area

There are 16 power plants within 50 miles of Orchard, Nebraska (ZIP 68764), with a combined 1,634 MW of nameplate capacity. Wind is the most common fuel type in this area with 12 of the 16 nearby plants. The closest plant is Upstream Wind Energy Llc at 17.7 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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