Power Plants Near 68792 — Wynot, NE

20 power plants within 50 miles of ZIP 68792 (Wynot, Nebraska). Click any plant for capacity, generation, emissions, and generator-level detail.

Centroid: 42.7393, -97.1678 · County: Cedar

Wind 60%Coal 26%Oil 7%Hydroelectric 6%

Distance	Plant	Fuel	Capacity	Operator
14.2 mi	Spirit Mound Vermillion, SD	Oil	135 MW	Basin Electric Power Coop
14.2 mi	Yankton Yankton, SD	Natural Gas	13 MW	Northwestern Energy - (Sd)
17.6 mi	Gavins Point Crofton, NE	Hydroelectric	132 MW	Usace-Omaha
21.1 mi	Crofton Bluffs Wind Llc Bloomfield, NE	Wind	40 MW	Crofton Bluffs Wind, Llc
21.7 mi	Laurel Laurel, NE	Natural Gas	4 MW	City Of Laurel - (Ne)
23.1 mi	Elkhorn Ridge Wind Llc Bloomfield, NE	Wind	81 MW	Elkhorn Ridge Wind, Llc
27.5 mi	Prevailing Wind Park Lesterville, SD	Wind	220 MW	Aes Distributed Energy
30.5 mi	Rattlesnake Creek Wind Project Dixon, NE	Wind	318 MW	Rattlesnake Creek Wind Project, Llc
31.2 mi	Sholes Wind Energy Center Randolph, NE	Wind	160 MW	Sholes Wind Energy Center, Llc
32.9 mi	Haystack Wind Project, Llc Carroll, NE	Wind	298 MW	Haystack Wind Project, Llc
36.0 mi	Wakefield Wakefield, NE	Oil	4 MW	City Of Wakefield - (Ne)
36.2 mi	Wayne Ic Wayne, NE	Oil	22 MW	City Of Wayne
39.0 mi	Emerson Emerson, NE	Natural Gas	2 MW	City Of Emerson - (Ne)
40.0 mi	Plum Creek Wind Project (Ne) Winside, NE	Wind	230 MW	Plum Creek Wind, Llc
41.8 mi	South Sioux City Solar Dakota, NE	Solar	2 MW	Tesla Inc.
42.8 mi	Poet Biorefining - Hudson Hudson, SD	Natural Gas	4 MW	Poet Biorefining - Hudson
44.1 mi	South Sioux City Energy Storage South Sioux City, NE	Other Fossil	2 MW	Dg Nebraska Energy Storage, Llc
44.9 mi	Poet Biorefining - Chancellor Chancellor, SD	Natural Gas	5 MW	Poet Biorefining- Chancellor
49.2 mi	Pender Pender, NE	Oil	5 MW	City Of Pender - (Ne)
49.3 mi	George Neal North Sergeant Bluff, IA	Coal	584 MW	Midamerican Energy Co

Power generation near this area

There are 20 power plants within 50 miles of Wynot, Nebraska (ZIP 68792), with a combined 2,261 MW of nameplate capacity. Wind is the most common fuel type in this area with 7 of the 20 nearby plants. The closest plant is Spirit Mound at 14.2 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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