Power Plants Near 70127 — New Orleans, LA

25 power plants within 50 miles of ZIP 70127 (New Orleans, Louisiana). Click any plant for capacity, generation, emissions, and generator-level detail.

Centroid: 30.0313, -89.9758 · County: Orleans

Natural Gas 83%Nuclear 15%

Distance	Plant	Fuel	Capacity	Operator
2.6 mi	New Orleans New Orleans, LA	Natural Gas	—	Air Products & Chemicals Inc
2.8 mi	Michoud New Orleans, LA	Natural Gas	—	Entergy New Orleans, Llc
2.8 mi	New Orleans Power New Orleans, LA	Natural Gas	132 MW	Entergy New Orleans, Llc
3.2 mi	A B Paterson New Orleans, LA	Natural Gas	—	Entergy New Orleans, Llc
3.2 mi	Eno Paterson Solar New Orleans, LA	Solar	2 MW	Entergy New Orleans, Llc
3.5 mi	New Orleans Solar Station New Orleans, LA	Solar	20 MW	Entergy New Orleans, Llc
4.2 mi	Tci Alvar New Orleans, LA	Solar	2 MW	Entergy New Orleans, Llc
4.5 mi	Tci France New Orleans, LA	Solar	2 MW	Entergy New Orleans, Llc
6.0 mi	Domino Sugar Arabi Plant Arabi, LA	Natural Gas	14 MW	American Sugar Refining Inc.
6.4 mi	Chalmette Refining Llc Chalmette, LA	Other Fossil	6 MW	Chalmette Refining Llc
6.8 mi	Cii Carbon Llc Chalmette, LA	Other Fossil	46 MW	Cii Carbon Llc
11.7 mi	Nine Mile Point Westwego, LA	Natural Gas	2,440 MW	Entergy Louisiana Llc
14.5 mi	Toca Plant St. Bernard, LA	Natural Gas	—	Enterprise Products Optg Lp
15.3 mi	Oak Point Cogen Belle Chasse, LA	Natural Gas	24 MW	Chevron Oronite Co Llc
28.0 mi	Dow St Charles Operations Taft, LA	Natural Gas	324 MW	Dow Chemical Co - St Charles
29.1 mi	St. Charles Power Station (La) La Place, LA	Natural Gas	1,000 MW	Entergy Louisiana Llc
29.1 mi	Taft Cogeneration Facility Hahnville, LA	Natural Gas	894 MW	Occidental Chemical Corporation
29.1 mi	Little Gypsy La Place, LA	Natural Gas	1,003 MW	Entergy Louisiana Llc
29.8 mi	Waterford 3 Killona, LA	Nuclear	1,200 MW	Entergy Louisiana Llc
30.1 mi	Waterford 1 & 2 Killona, LA	Natural Gas	932 MW	Entergy Louisiana Llc
39.8 mi	Moonshot Picayune, MS	Solar	79 MW	Moonshot Solar, Llc
41.5 mi	Atlantic Alumina, Gramercy Operations Gramercy, LA	Natural Gas	85 MW	Atalco Gramercy Llc
42.4 mi	Louisiana Sugar Refining Gramercy, LA	Natural Gas	7 MW	Louisiana Sugar Refining Llc
45.1 mi	Vacherie Solar Energy Center, Llc Jefferson, LA	Solar	—	Vacherie Solar Energy Center, Llc
45.5 mi	St. James Solar (La) Vacherie, LA	Solar	20 MW	St. James Solar, Llc

Power generation near this area

There are 25 power plants within 50 miles of New Orleans, Louisiana (ZIP 70127), with a combined 8,229 MW of nameplate capacity. Natural Gas is the most common fuel type in this area with 15 of the 25 nearby plants. The closest plant is New Orleans at 2.6 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 Louisiana, visit the Louisiana state page.

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