Power Plants Near 70518 — Broussard, LA

27 power plants within 50 miles of ZIP 70518 (Broussard, Louisiana). Click any plant for capacity, generation, emissions, and generator-level detail.

Centroid: 30.1219, -91.9502 · County: Lafayette

Natural Gas 94%Solar 4%

Distance	Plant	Fuel	Capacity	Operator
4.1 mi	Hargis-Hebert Electric Generating Lafayette, LA	Natural Gas	101 MW	Lafayette Utilities System
8.6 mi	Rodemacher Lafayette, LA	Natural Gas	—	Lafayette Utilities System
9.9 mi	Louis Doc Bonin Lafayette, LA	Natural Gas	—	Lafayette Utilities System
10.8 mi	T J Labbe Electric Generating Lafayette, LA	Natural Gas	101 MW	Lafayette Utilities System
20.2 mi	Enterprise Sugar Factory Jeanerette, LA	Biomass	3 MW	M.a. Patout & Son Limited, Llc
20.7 mi	Rayne Rayne, LA	Oil	8 MW	Louisiana Energy & Power Authority
22.0 mi	Sr Sunset Sunset, LA	Solar	—	Sr Sunset, Llc
27.1 mi	Ivanhoe Generation Facility Franklin, LA	Other Fossil	31 MW	Orion Engineered Carbons
32.0 mi	Teche Baldwin, LA	Natural Gas	391 MW	Cleco Power Llc
32.0 mi	Franklin (La) Franklin, LA	Natural Gas	—	Cleco Power Llc
32.9 mi	Mowata Solar Tbd, LA	Solar	—	Lightsource Renewable Energy Asset Management, Llc
33.8 mi	Luicain Solar Gueydan, LA	Solar	—	Ric Development, Llc
34.8 mi	Acadia Energy Center Eunice, LA	Natural Gas	1,389 MW	Cleco Power Llc
36.2 mi	Prairie Ronde Solar Farm Opelousas, LA	Solar	135 MW	Lightsource Renewable Energy Asset Management, Llc
36.9 mi	Mondu Solar Llc Livonia, LA	Solar	—	Mondu Solar Llc
37.7 mi	Exxonmobil Garden City Gas Plant Centerville, LA	Natural Gas	—	Exxon Mobil Production Co
40.3 mi	Bayou Cove Peaking Power Jennings, LA	Natural Gas	416 MW	Bayou Cove, Llc
40.5 mi	Neptune Gas Processing Plant Centerville, LA	Other Fossil	5 MW	Enterprise Products Optg Lp
41.7 mi	St. Mary Clean Energy Center Centerville, LA	Other Fossil	51 MW	Cleco Power Llc
41.9 mi	Eunice La Plant Eunice, LA	Natural Gas	5 MW	Enlink Processing Services, Llc
42.7 mi	Plaquemine Plaquemine, LA	Natural Gas	—	Louisiana Energy & Power Authority
43.9 mi	La3 West Baton Rouge Solar Facility West Baton Rouge, LA	Solar	50 MW	Sol Systems
44.9 mi	Plaquemine Cogeneration Plant Plaquemine, LA	Natural Gas	987 MW	Dow Chemical Co
45.0 mi	Lao Energy Systems Plaquemine, LA	Natural Gas	465 MW	Dow Chemical Co
45.0 mi	Plaquemine Operations Plaquemine, LA	Natural Gas	—	Dow Chemical Co
46.7 mi	Westlake Plaquemine Plaquemine, LA	Natural Gas	306 MW	Westlake Chemicals & Vinyls Llc
47.8 mi	Magnolia Power Plaquemine, LA	Natural Gas	—	Magnolia Power Holdings Llc

Power generation near this area

There are 27 power plants within 50 miles of Broussard, Louisiana (ZIP 70518), with a combined 4,442 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 4.1 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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