Power Plants Near 68974 — Ruskin, NE

23 power plants within 50 miles of ZIP 68974 (Ruskin, Nebraska). Click any plant for capacity, generation, emissions, and generator-level detail.

Centroid: 40.1383, -97.8720 · County: Nuckolls

Wind 73%Coal 15%Natural Gas 8%Oil 3%

Distance	Plant	Fuel	Capacity	Operator
7.8 mi	Deshler Deshler, NE	Oil	2 MW	City Of Deshler - (Ne)
9.4 mi	Deshler Solar Hebron, NE	Solar	1 MW	Today's Power, Inc.
15.9 mi	Hebron Hebron, NE	Oil	57 MW	Nebraska Public Power District
24.6 mi	Belleville Belleville, KS	Natural Gas	14 MW	City Of Belleville - (Ks)
29.0 mi	Cottonwood Wind Energy Center Blue Hill, NE	Wind	90 MW	Cottonwood Wind Project
30.0 mi	Little Blue Wind Project, Llc Blue Hill, NE	Wind	251 MW	Little Blue Wind Project, Llc
32.3 mi	High Banks Wind Belleville, KS	Wind	643 MW	High Banks Wind, Llc
33.2 mi	City Light & Water Blue Hill, NE	Oil	1 MW	City Of Blue Hill - (Ne)
34.3 mi	Red Cloud Red Cloud, NE	Oil	6 MW	City Of Red Cloud - (Ne)
36.2 mi	Perennial Windfarm Fairmont, NE	Wind	7 MW	Perennial Wind, Llc
38.4 mi	Whelan Energy Center Hastings, NE	Coal	324 MW	City Of Hastings - (Ne)
38.5 mi	Ccc Hastings Wind Turbine Hastings, NE	Wind	2 MW	Ccc Hastings Renewable Energy, Llc
41.6 mi	Milligan 1 Wind Farm Western, NE	Wind	300 MW	Milligan 1 Wind, Llc
41.9 mi	North Denver Hastings, NE	Natural Gas	39 MW	City Of Hastings - (Ne)
42.2 mi	Don Henry Hastings, NE	Natural Gas	22 MW	City Of Hastings - (Ne)
43.7 mi	Hastings Community Solar Farm Hastings, NE	Solar	2 MW	City Of Hastings - (Ne)
46.4 mi	Swan Creek Wind Friend, NE	Wind	—	Swan Creek Wind Llc
46.8 mi	Campbell Village Campbell, NE	Oil	1 MW	Village Of Campbell - (Ne)
48.1 mi	Clifton Clifton, KS	Natural Gas	88 MW	Sunflower Electric Power Corp
48.7 mi	Beloit Beloit, KS	Natural Gas	19 MW	City Of Beloit - (Ks)
49.0 mi	Steele Flats Wind Project Llc Diller, NE	Wind	75 MW	Steele Flats Wind Project Llc
49.1 mi	Beloit Solar Llc Beloit, KS	Solar	2 MW	Ppm Solar Llc
49.7 mi	Cloud County Wind Farm Concordia, KS	Wind	201 MW	Cloud County Windfarm, Llc

Power generation near this area

There are 23 power plants within 50 miles of Ruskin, Nebraska (ZIP 68974), with a combined 2,146 MW of nameplate capacity. Wind is the most common fuel type in this area with 9 of the 23 nearby plants. The closest plant is Deshler at 7.8 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.

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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