Power Plants Near 79536 — Merkel, TX

57 power plants within 50 miles of ZIP 79536 (Merkel, Texas). Click any plant for capacity, generation, emissions, and generator-level detail.

Centroid: 32.4444, -99.9924 · County: Taylor

Wind 84%Solar 12%Battery Storage 3%

Distance	Plant	Fuel	Capacity	Operator
8.3 mi	South Trent Wind Farm Sweetwater, TX	Wind	101 MW	Nrg Energy Inc
9.3 mi	Chimney Rock Bess Abilene, TX	Battery Storage	—	Ric Development, Llc
9.9 mi	Callahan Divide Wind Energy Center Tusocola, TX	Wind	114 MW	Fpl Energy Callahan Wind, Llc
10.0 mi	Buffalo Gap Wind Farm Merkel, TX	Wind	121 MW	Aes Distributed Energy
12.4 mi	Summerhill Bess Abilene, TX	Battery Storage	—	Ric Development, Llc
12.5 mi	Buffalo Gap 3 Wind Farm Nolan, TX	Wind	170 MW	Aes Distributed Energy
13.2 mi	Hecate Energy Harley Hand Solar Llc Trent, TX	Solar	—	Hecate Energy Harley Hand Solar Llc
13.7 mi	Heb00070 Abilene, TX	Natural Gas	1 MW	Texas Microgrid, Llc
13.9 mi	Buffalo Gap 2 Wind Farm Merkel, TX	Wind	233 MW	Aes Distributed Energy
14.2 mi	Trent Wind Farm Trent, TX	Wind	152 MW	Trent Wind Farm Llc
15.2 mi	Leuven Solar Llc Sweetwater, TX	Solar	—	Belgian Renewable Energy Group (Breg)
16.4 mi	Horse Hollow Wind Energy Center Wingate, TX	Wind	736 MW	Fpl Energy Horse Hollow Llc
17.3 mi	Wal536 Abilene, TX	Natural Gas	1 MW	Walmart Stores Texas, Llc
19.0 mi	Indigo Solar & Storage Trent, TX	Battery Storage	—	Innovative Solar 245 Llc
20.2 mi	Post Oak Wind Llc Abilene, TX	Wind	200 MW	Mesquite Wind Llc
21.0 mi	Sweetwater Wind 1 Llc Sweetwater, TX	Wind	38 MW	Leeward Asset Management, Llc
22.0 mi	Txu Sweetwater Generating Plant Sweetwater, TX	Natural Gas	—	Luminant Generation Company Llc
23.0 mi	Sweetwater Wind 2 Llc Sweetwater, TX	Wind	99 MW	Leeward Asset Management, Llc
23.1 mi	Mesquite Star Roscoe, TX	Wind	419 MW	Mesquite Star Special Llc
23.3 mi	Jones City 1 Solar Hamlin, TX	Solar	—	Lightsource Renewable Energy Asset Management, Llc
23.4 mi	Turkey Track Wind Energy Llc Blackwell, TX	Wind	170 MW	Invenergy Services Llc
24.2 mi	Jones City 2 Solar Hamlin, TX	Battery Storage	—	Lightsource Renewable Energy Asset Management, Llc
25.2 mi	Tiger Solar Anson, TX	Solar	—	Vaca Del Sol, Llc
25.5 mi	Holstein 1 Solar Farm Wingate, TX	Solar	200 MW	Duke Energy Renewables Services
25.7 mi	Anson Solar Center, Llc Anson, TX	Solar	200 MW	Engie North America
26.7 mi	Cotton Belle Solar Hamlin, TX	Solar	—	Cotton Belle Solar, Llc
26.9 mi	Holstein 2 Battery Storage Wingate, TX	Battery Storage	—	229hd 8me, Llc
27.2 mi	Sweetwater Wind 3 Llc Sweetwater, TX	Wind	135 MW	Leeward Asset Management, Llc
28.3 mi	Funston Solar Anson, TX	Solar	—	Funston Solar, Llc
31.7 mi	Mesquite Wind Power Llc Abilene, TX	Wind	200 MW	Mesquite Wind Llc
32.0 mi	Sweetwater Wind 5 Roscoe, TX	Wind	81 MW	Leeward Asset Management, Llc
32.7 mi	Sweetwater Wind 4 Llc Roscoe, TX	Wind	241 MW	Leeward Asset Management, Llc
33.7 mi	Maryneal Windpower Maryneal, TX	Wind	182 MW	Duke Energy Renewables Services
34.0 mi	Hayrick Bess Blackwell, TX	Battery Storage	—	Gransolar Texas Five Llc
34.4 mi	Inadale Wind Farm Llc Hybrid Roscoe, TX	Wind	207 MW	Big Sky Wind, Llc
34.4 mi	Quick Draw Hamlin, TX	Wind	—	Quick Draw Wind, Llc
38.4 mi	Champion Wind Farm Llc Roscoe, TX	Wind	127 MW	Big Sky Wind, Llc
39.3 mi	Roscoe Wind Farm Llc Roscoe, TX	Wind	209 MW	Big Sky Wind, Llc
40.0 mi	Hackberry Wind Farm Albany, TX	Wind	166 MW	Hackberry Wind Llc
40.9 mi	Pyron Wind Farm Llc Hybrid Hermleigh, TX	Wind	259 MW	Big Sky Wind, Llc
42.3 mi	Bmp Wind (Tx) Baird, TX	Wind	293 MW	Bmp Wind Llc
43.9 mi	Loraine Windpark Project Llc Loraine, TX	Wind	150 MW	Loraine Windpower Project
44.9 mi	Alamo 7 Bess 1 Mccarney, TX	Battery Storage	—	Consolidated Edison Development Inc.
44.9 mi	Alamo 7 Bess 2 Haskell, TX	Battery Storage	—	Consolidated Edison Development Inc.
45.5 mi	Azure Sky Solar Haskell, TX	Solar	303 MW	Azure Sky Solar Project, Llc
46.6 mi	Quantum Bess Haskell, TX	Battery Storage	—	Ip Quantum Bess, Llc
46.6 mi	Quantum Solar N/A, TX	Solar	—	Ip Quantum, Llc
47.7 mi	Baywa R.e Mozart Llc Jayton, TX	Wind	30 MW	Chopin Wind, Llc
48.4 mi	Oci Alamo 7 Llc Haskell, TX	Solar	100 MW	Consolidated Edison Development Inc.
48.6 mi	Century Oak Wind Project, Llc Cisco, TX	Wind	152 MW	Century Oak Wind Project, Llc
48.6 mi	Longhorn Storage Cisco, TX	Battery Storage	165 MW	Longhorn Storage Llc
48.7 mi	Sequoia 1 Cisco, TX	Solar	—	Sequoia 1 Solar Project
49.1 mi	Amadeus Wind Farm Rotan, TX	Wind	250 MW	Amadeus Wind Llc
49.1 mi	Jameson Gas Processing Plant Silver, TX	Natural Gas	2 MW	Wtg Jameson, L.p.
49.2 mi	Ranchland Wind Project I Cisco, TX	Wind	115 MW	Ranchland Wind Project I, Llc
49.2 mi	Ranchland Wind Project Ii Cisco, TX	Wind	148 MW	Ranchland Wind Project Ii, Llc
49.2 mi	Ranchland Wind Storage Cisco, TX	Other Fossil	72 MW	Ranchland Wind Storage, Llc

Power generation near this area

There are 57 power plants within 50 miles of Merkel, Texas (ZIP 79536), with a combined 6,538 MW of nameplate capacity. Wind is the most common fuel type in this area with 30 of the 57 nearby plants. The closest plant is South Trent Wind Farm at 8.3 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 Texas, visit the Texas state page.

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