Power Plants Near 81022 — Avondale, CO

37 power plants within 50 miles of ZIP 81022 (Avondale, Colorado). Click any plant for capacity, generation, emissions, and generator-level detail.

Centroid: 38.1025, -104.5298 · County: Pueblo

Solar 36%Coal 33%Natural Gas 27%Wind 3%

Distance	Plant	Fuel	Capacity	Operator
4.2 mi	Arroyo Solar Avondale, CO	Solar	—	Public Service Co Of Colorado
5.4 mi	Stagecoach Lre Pueblo, CO	Solar	—	Leeward Asset Management, Llc
5.4 mi	Sun Mountain Solar 1 Unincorporated Pueblo, CO	Solar	200 MW	Lightsource Renewable Energy Asset Management, Llc
6.7 mi	Cswind America Inc. Pueblo, CO	Solar	12 MW	Cs Wind America, Inc.
6.9 mi	Vestas Towers America, Inc. Pueblo, CO	Wind	2 MW	Cs Wind America, Inc.
7.4 mi	Comanche Solar Pueblo, CO	Solar	120 MW	Onward Energy
7.7 mi	Comanche (Co) Pueblo, CO	Coal	1,253 MW	Public Service Co Of Colorado
8.1 mi	Bighorn Solar 1 Pueblo, CO	Solar	240 MW	Lightsource Renewable Energy Asset Management, Llc
9.4 mi	Thunder Wolf Energy Center Hybrid Avondale, CO	Solar	348 MW	Thunder Wolf Energy Center, Llc
12.2 mi	Pueblo Pueblo, CO	Oil	8 MW	Black Hills Colorado Electric, Llc
12.6 mi	Airport Industrial Pueblo, CO	Oil	10 MW	Black Hills Colorado Electric, Llc
12.6 mi	Cec Solar #1117, Llc Pueblo, CO	Solar	2 MW	Clean Focus Renewables, Inc.
14.3 mi	Csu Pueblo Pueblo, CO	Solar	1 MW	Scale Sustainable I, Llc
15.1 mi	Pueblo Airport Generating Station Pueblo, CO	Natural Gas	440 MW	Black Hills Service Company Llc
15.3 mi	Uss Giveback Solar Llc (Csg) Pueblo, CO	Solar	2 MW	United States Solar Corporation
15.5 mi	James W. Broderick Hydropower Plant Pueblo, CO	Hydroelectric	8 MW	James W. Broderick Hydropower Plant
16.9 mi	Neptune Energy Center Hybrid Boone, CO	Solar	450 MW	Neptune Energy Center, Llc
20.9 mi	Busch Ranch Wind Energy Walsenburg, CO	Wind	29 MW	Black Hills Colorado Electric, Llc
23.9 mi	Busch Ranch Ii Wind Farm Walsenburg, CO	Wind	59 MW	Black Hills Electric Generation Llc
27.1 mi	Peak View Wind Farm Walsenburg, CO	Wind	61 MW	Black Hills Colorado Electric, Llc
28.1 mi	Huerfano River Wind Walsenburg, CO	Wind	8 MW	Huerfano River Wind, Llc
28.4 mi	Turkey Creek Solar Project Ault, CO	Solar	—	174 Power Global Corp.
32.5 mi	Fountain Valley Power Facility Fountain, CO	Natural Gas	228 MW	Fountain Valley Power Llc
35.7 mi	Clear Spring Ranch Pv Project Fountain, CO	Solar	10 MW	Dg Colorado Solar, Llc
36.0 mi	Pike Solar Hybrid Fountain, CO	Solar	175 MW	Duke Energy Renewables Services
37.0 mi	Palmer Solar Fountain, CO	Solar	60 MW	Duke Energy Renewables Services
37.6 mi	Front Range Power Plant Fountain, CO	Natural Gas	554 MW	City Of Colorado Springs - (Co)
37.9 mi	Ray D Nixon Fountain, CO	Coal	283 MW	City Of Colorado Springs - (Co)
43.1 mi	Nse Camber Bh Csg 2, Llc Ordway, CO	Solar	2 MW	Nautilus Solar Solutions
44.5 mi	Rocky Ford Rocky Ford, CO	Oil	10 MW	Black Hills Colorado Electric, Llc
44.7 mi	Fremont Co 1, Llc Canon City, CO	Solar	2 MW	Greenbacker Renewable Energy Corporation
44.8 mi	Elk Run Aguilar, CO	Solar	—	Cypress Creek Renewables
45.0 mi	Carson Solar I Colorado Springs, CO	Solar	2 MW	Carson Solar 1 Llc
45.3 mi	W N Clark Canon City, CO	Coal	—	Black Hills Colorado Electric, Llc
46.4 mi	Fort Carson Battery Energy Storage Syste Fort Carson, CO	Other Fossil	4 MW	Department Of The Army, Fort Carson
47.1 mi	Horizon Colorado Springs, CO	Natural Gas	—	City Of Colorado Springs - (Co)
47.9 mi	Pikes Peak Solar Garden 1 Llc Csg Colorado Springs, CO	Solar	2 MW	Pikes Peak Solar Garden 1 Llc

Power generation near this area

There are 37 power plants within 50 miles of Avondale, Colorado (ZIP 81022), with a combined 4,584 MW of nameplate capacity. Solar is the most common fuel type in this area with 20 of the 37 nearby plants. The closest plant is Arroyo Solar at 4.2 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 Colorado, visit the Colorado state page.

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