Power Plants Near 70520 — Carencro, LA

27 power plants within 50 miles of ZIP 70520 (Carencro, Louisiana). Click any plant for capacity, generation, emissions, and generator-level detail.

Centroid: 30.3244, -92.0423 · County: Lafayette

Natural Gas 68%Coal 25%Solar 6%

Distance	Plant	Fuel	Capacity	Operator
4.8 mi	T J Labbe Electric Generating Lafayette, LA	Natural Gas	101 MW	Lafayette Utilities System
6.0 mi	Louis Doc Bonin Lafayette, LA	Natural Gas	—	Lafayette Utilities System
6.4 mi	Rodemacher Lafayette, LA	Natural Gas	—	Lafayette Utilities System
7.0 mi	Sr Sunset Sunset, LA	Solar	—	Sr Sunset, Llc
11.1 mi	Hargis-Hebert Electric Generating Lafayette, LA	Natural Gas	101 MW	Lafayette Utilities System
15.1 mi	Rayne Rayne, LA	Oil	8 MW	Louisiana Energy & Power Authority
21.1 mi	Prairie Ronde Solar Farm Opelousas, LA	Solar	135 MW	Lightsource Renewable Energy Asset Management, Llc
22.1 mi	Mowata Solar Tbd, LA	Solar	—	Lightsource Renewable Energy Asset Management, Llc
23.2 mi	Acadia Energy Center Eunice, LA	Natural Gas	1,389 MW	Cleco Power Llc
30.7 mi	Eunice La Plant Eunice, LA	Natural Gas	5 MW	Enlink Processing Services, Llc
31.7 mi	Mondu Solar Llc Livonia, LA	Solar	—	Mondu Solar Llc
33.4 mi	Bayou Cove Peaking Power Jennings, LA	Natural Gas	416 MW	Bayou Cove, Llc
33.5 mi	Luicain Solar Gueydan, LA	Solar	—	Ric Development, Llc
34.7 mi	Enterprise Sugar Factory Jeanerette, LA	Biomass	3 MW	M.a. Patout & Son Limited, Llc
38.2 mi	Coughlin Power Station St Landry, LA	Natural Gas	923 MW	Cleco Power Llc
42.0 mi	Ivanhoe Generation Facility Franklin, LA	Other Fossil	31 MW	Orion Engineered Carbons
43.4 mi	La3 West Baton Rouge Solar Facility West Baton Rouge, LA	Solar	50 MW	Sol Systems
45.4 mi	Oxbow Solar 1 New Roads, LA	Solar	300 MW	Lightsource Renewable Energy Asset Management, Llc
45.8 mi	Teche Baldwin, LA	Natural Gas	391 MW	Cleco Power Llc
45.8 mi	Franklin (La) Franklin, LA	Natural Gas	—	Cleco Power Llc
47.0 mi	Plaquemine Plaquemine, LA	Natural Gas	—	Louisiana Energy & Power Authority
47.5 mi	Big Cajun 1 Jarreau, LA	Natural Gas	493 MW	Louisiana Generating Llc
48.2 mi	Plaquemine Cogeneration Plant Plaquemine, LA	Natural Gas	987 MW	Dow Chemical Co
48.3 mi	Plaquemine Operations Plaquemine, LA	Natural Gas	—	Dow Chemical Co
48.3 mi	Lao Energy Systems Plaquemine, LA	Natural Gas	465 MW	Dow Chemical Co
48.7 mi	Big Cajun 2 New Roads, LA	Coal	1,903 MW	Louisiana Generating Llc
48.8 mi	New Roads New Roads, LA	Oil	9 MW	City Of New Roads - (La)

Power generation near this area

There are 27 power plants within 50 miles of Carencro, Louisiana (ZIP 70520), with a combined 7,709 MW of nameplate capacity. Natural Gas is the most common fuel type in this area with 15 of the 27 nearby plants. The closest plant is T J Labbe Electric Generating at 4.8 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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