Power Plants Near 70523 — Charenton, LA

38 power plants within 50 miles of ZIP 70523 (Charenton, Louisiana). Click any plant for capacity, generation, emissions, and generator-level detail.

Centroid: 29.8796, -91.5337 · County: St. Mary

Natural Gas 85%Other Fossil 14%

Distance	Plant	Fuel	Capacity	Operator
4.0 mi	Teche Baldwin, LA	Natural Gas	391 MW	Cleco Power Llc
4.0 mi	Franklin (La) Franklin, LA	Natural Gas	—	Cleco Power Llc
11.5 mi	Neptune Gas Processing Plant Centerville, LA	Other Fossil	5 MW	Enterprise Products Optg Lp
11.6 mi	Enterprise Sugar Factory Jeanerette, LA	Biomass	3 MW	M.a. Patout & Son Limited, Llc
12.4 mi	Exxonmobil Garden City Gas Plant Centerville, LA	Natural Gas	—	Exxon Mobil Production Co
14.0 mi	St. Mary Clean Energy Center Centerville, LA	Other Fossil	51 MW	Cleco Power Llc
14.0 mi	Ivanhoe Generation Facility Franklin, LA	Other Fossil	31 MW	Orion Engineered Carbons
24.2 mi	Lepa Unit No. 1 Morgan City, LA	Natural Gas	74 MW	Louisiana Energy & Power Authority
24.4 mi	Morgan City Morgan City, LA	Natural Gas	—	Louisiana Energy & Power Authority
31.8 mi	Plaquemine Plaquemine, LA	Natural Gas	—	Louisiana Energy & Power Authority
33.5 mi	Westlake Plaquemine Plaquemine, LA	Natural Gas	306 MW	Westlake Chemicals & Vinyls Llc
33.9 mi	Magnolia Power Plaquemine, LA	Natural Gas	—	Magnolia Power Holdings Llc
34.0 mi	Hargis-Hebert Electric Generating Lafayette, LA	Natural Gas	101 MW	Lafayette Utilities System
35.3 mi	Lao Energy Systems Plaquemine, LA	Natural Gas	465 MW	Dow Chemical Co
35.3 mi	Plaquemine Operations Plaquemine, LA	Natural Gas	—	Dow Chemical Co
35.4 mi	Plaquemine Cogeneration Plant Plaquemine, LA	Natural Gas	987 MW	Dow Chemical Co
37.0 mi	Willow Glen St. Gabriel, LA	Natural Gas	—	Entergy Louisiana Llc
37.0 mi	Carville Energy Llc St Gabriel, LA	Natural Gas	555 MW	Carville Energy Llc
37.4 mi	Pcs Nitrogen Fertilizer Lp Geismar, LA	Other Fossil	14 MW	Pcs Nitrogen Lp
37.6 mi	Rodemacher Lafayette, LA	Natural Gas	—	Lafayette Utilities System
38.8 mi	Geismar Geismar, LA	Natural Gas	84 MW	Basf Corporation
39.2 mi	Shell Chemical Geismar, LA	Natural Gas	80 MW	Shell Chemical Lp - Geismar
39.4 mi	Louis Doc Bonin Lafayette, LA	Natural Gas	—	Lafayette Utilities System
39.6 mi	Geismar Cogen Geismar, LA	Natural Gas	84 MW	Air Liquide Large Industries U S Lp
40.0 mi	T J Labbe Electric Generating Lafayette, LA	Natural Gas	101 MW	Lafayette Utilities System
42.2 mi	La3 West Baton Rouge Solar Facility West Baton Rouge, LA	Solar	50 MW	Sol Systems
42.3 mi	Lsu Cogen Baton Rouge, LA	Natural Gas	20 MW	Lsu And A&m College
43.6 mi	Mosaic Phosphates Uncle Sam Uncle Sam, LA	Other Fossil	26 MW	Mosaic Phosphates Co.
43.7 mi	Thibodaux Thibodaux, LA	Natural Gas	—	Entergy Louisiana Llc
45.6 mi	Port Allen (La) Port Allen, LA	Natural Gas	8 MW	Placid Refining Co Llc
46.3 mi	Mondu Solar Llc Livonia, LA	Solar	—	Mondu Solar Llc
47.0 mi	Exxonmobil Baton Rouge Turbine Generator Baton Rouge, LA	Natural Gas	85 MW	Exxon Mobil Corp
47.1 mi	Louisiana 1 Baton Rouge, LA	Other Fossil	451 MW	Entergy Louisiana Llc
47.1 mi	Louisiana 2 Baton Rouge, LA	Natural Gas	175 MW	Entergy Louisiana Llc
47.5 mi	Formosa Plastics Baton Rouge, LA	Natural Gas	101 MW	Formosa Plastics Corp
48.4 mi	St. James Solar (La) Vacherie, LA	Solar	20 MW	St. James Solar, Llc
48.7 mi	Vacherie Solar Energy Center, Llc Jefferson, LA	Solar	—	Vacherie Solar Energy Center, Llc
49.5 mi	Sr Sunset Sunset, LA	Solar	—	Sr Sunset, Llc

Power generation near this area

There are 38 power plants within 50 miles of Charenton, Louisiana (ZIP 70523), with a combined 4,266 MW of nameplate capacity. Natural Gas is the most common fuel type in this area with 26 of the 38 nearby plants. The closest plant is Teche at 4.0 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.

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