Power Plants Near 70508 — Lafayette, LA

26 power plants within 50 miles of ZIP 70508 (Lafayette, Louisiana). Click any plant for capacity, generation, emissions, and generator-level detail.

Centroid: 30.1582, -92.0236 · County: Lafayette

Natural Gas 94%Solar 4%

Distance	Plant	Fuel	Capacity	Operator
2.0 mi	Hargis-Hebert Electric Generating Lafayette, LA	Natural Gas	101 MW	Lafayette Utilities System
5.5 mi	Rodemacher Lafayette, LA	Natural Gas	—	Lafayette Utilities System
5.7 mi	Louis Doc Bonin Lafayette, LA	Natural Gas	—	Lafayette Utilities System
6.8 mi	T J Labbe Electric Generating Lafayette, LA	Natural Gas	101 MW	Lafayette Utilities System
15.8 mi	Rayne Rayne, LA	Oil	8 MW	Louisiana Energy & Power Authority
18.5 mi	Sr Sunset Sunset, LA	Solar	—	Sr Sunset, Llc
25.0 mi	Enterprise Sugar Factory Jeanerette, LA	Biomass	3 MW	M.a. Patout & Son Limited, Llc
27.9 mi	Mowata Solar Tbd, LA	Solar	—	Lightsource Renewable Energy Asset Management, Llc
29.8 mi	Acadia Energy Center Eunice, LA	Natural Gas	1,389 MW	Cleco Power Llc
30.0 mi	Luicain Solar Gueydan, LA	Solar	—	Ric Development, Llc
31.5 mi	Ivanhoe Generation Facility Franklin, LA	Other Fossil	31 MW	Orion Engineered Carbons
32.4 mi	Prairie Ronde Solar Farm Opelousas, LA	Solar	135 MW	Lightsource Renewable Energy Asset Management, Llc
35.5 mi	Bayou Cove Peaking Power Jennings, LA	Natural Gas	416 MW	Bayou Cove, Llc
36.8 mi	Eunice La Plant Eunice, LA	Natural Gas	5 MW	Enlink Processing Services, Llc
37.0 mi	Teche Baldwin, LA	Natural Gas	391 MW	Cleco Power Llc
37.0 mi	Franklin (La) Franklin, LA	Natural Gas	—	Cleco Power Llc
37.8 mi	Mondu Solar Llc Livonia, LA	Solar	—	Mondu Solar Llc
42.5 mi	Exxonmobil Garden City Gas Plant Centerville, LA	Natural Gas	—	Exxon Mobil Production Co
45.5 mi	Neptune Gas Processing Plant Centerville, LA	Other Fossil	5 MW	Enterprise Products Optg Lp
46.4 mi	La3 West Baton Rouge Solar Facility West Baton Rouge, LA	Solar	50 MW	Sol Systems
46.5 mi	Plaquemine Plaquemine, LA	Natural Gas	—	Louisiana Energy & Power Authority
46.6 mi	St. Mary Clean Energy Center Centerville, LA	Other Fossil	51 MW	Cleco Power Llc
48.4 mi	Plaquemine Cogeneration Plant Plaquemine, LA	Natural Gas	987 MW	Dow Chemical Co
48.5 mi	Lao Energy Systems Plaquemine, LA	Natural Gas	465 MW	Dow Chemical Co
48.5 mi	Plaquemine Operations Plaquemine, LA	Natural Gas	—	Dow Chemical Co
49.4 mi	Coughlin Power Station St Landry, LA	Natural Gas	923 MW	Cleco Power Llc

Power generation near this area

There are 26 power plants within 50 miles of Lafayette, Louisiana (ZIP 70508), with a combined 5,059 MW of nameplate capacity. Natural Gas is the most common fuel type in this area with 15 of the 26 nearby plants. The closest plant is Hargis-Hebert Electric Generating at 2.0 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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