Power Plants Near 70509 — Lafayette, LA

27 power plants within 50 miles of ZIP 70509 (Lafayette, Louisiana). Click any plant for capacity, generation, emissions, and generator-level detail.

Centroid: 30.1565, -92.0000 · County: Lafayette

Natural Gas 95%Solar 3%

Distance	Plant	Fuel	Capacity	Operator
1.0 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
6.3 mi	Louis Doc Bonin Lafayette, LA	Natural Gas	—	Lafayette Utilities System
7.3 mi	T J Labbe Electric Generating Lafayette, LA	Natural Gas	101 MW	Lafayette Utilities System
17.1 mi	Rayne Rayne, LA	Oil	8 MW	Louisiana Energy & Power Authority
18.9 mi	Sr Sunset Sunset, LA	Solar	—	Sr Sunset, Llc
24.0 mi	Enterprise Sugar Factory Jeanerette, LA	Biomass	3 MW	M.a. Patout & Son Limited, Llc
29.1 mi	Mowata Solar Tbd, LA	Solar	—	Lightsource Renewable Energy Asset Management, Llc
30.6 mi	Ivanhoe Generation Facility Franklin, LA	Other Fossil	31 MW	Orion Engineered Carbons
31.0 mi	Acadia Energy Center Eunice, LA	Natural Gas	1,389 MW	Cleco Power Llc
31.3 mi	Luicain Solar Gueydan, LA	Solar	—	Ric Development, Llc
32.9 mi	Prairie Ronde Solar Farm Opelousas, LA	Solar	135 MW	Lightsource Renewable Energy Asset Management, Llc
35.8 mi	Teche Baldwin, LA	Natural Gas	391 MW	Cleco Power Llc
35.8 mi	Franklin (La) Franklin, LA	Natural Gas	—	Cleco Power Llc
36.8 mi	Bayou Cove Peaking Power Jennings, LA	Natural Gas	416 MW	Bayou Cove, Llc
37.0 mi	Mondu Solar Llc Livonia, LA	Solar	—	Mondu Solar Llc
38.1 mi	Eunice La Plant Eunice, LA	Natural Gas	5 MW	Enlink Processing Services, Llc
41.5 mi	Exxonmobil Garden City Gas Plant Centerville, LA	Natural Gas	—	Exxon Mobil Production Co
44.3 mi	Neptune Gas Processing Plant Centerville, LA	Other Fossil	5 MW	Enterprise Products Optg Lp
45.1 mi	Plaquemine Plaquemine, LA	Natural Gas	—	Louisiana Energy & Power Authority
45.2 mi	La3 West Baton Rouge Solar Facility West Baton Rouge, LA	Solar	50 MW	Sol Systems
45.5 mi	St. Mary Clean Energy Center Centerville, LA	Other Fossil	51 MW	Cleco Power Llc
47.1 mi	Plaquemine Cogeneration Plant Plaquemine, LA	Natural Gas	987 MW	Dow Chemical Co
47.2 mi	Lao Energy Systems Plaquemine, LA	Natural Gas	465 MW	Dow Chemical Co
47.2 mi	Plaquemine Operations Plaquemine, LA	Natural Gas	—	Dow Chemical Co
49.2 mi	Westlake Plaquemine Plaquemine, LA	Natural Gas	306 MW	Westlake Chemicals & Vinyls Llc
50.0 mi	Coughlin Power Station St Landry, LA	Natural Gas	923 MW	Cleco Power Llc

Power generation near this area

There are 27 power plants within 50 miles of Lafayette, Louisiana (ZIP 70509), with a combined 5,365 MW of nameplate capacity. Natural Gas is the most common fuel type in this area with 16 of the 27 nearby plants. The closest plant is Hargis-Hebert Electric Generating at 1.0 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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