Power Plants Near 70538 — Franklin, LA

32 power plants within 50 miles of ZIP 70538 (Franklin, Louisiana). Click any plant for capacity, generation, emissions, and generator-level detail.

Centroid: 29.7857, -91.5026 · County: St. Mary

Natural Gas 94%Other Fossil 4%

Distance	Plant	Fuel	Capacity	Operator
3.5 mi	Teche Baldwin, LA	Natural Gas	391 MW	Cleco Power Llc
3.5 mi	Franklin (La) Franklin, LA	Natural Gas	—	Cleco Power Llc
5.1 mi	Neptune Gas Processing Plant Centerville, LA	Other Fossil	5 MW	Enterprise Products Optg Lp
6.6 mi	Exxonmobil Garden City Gas Plant Centerville, LA	Natural Gas	—	Exxon Mobil Production Co
7.2 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
15.6 mi	Enterprise Sugar Factory Jeanerette, LA	Biomass	3 MW	M.a. Patout & Son Limited, Llc
19.7 mi	Lepa Unit No. 1 Morgan City, LA	Natural Gas	74 MW	Louisiana Energy & Power Authority
19.9 mi	Morgan City Morgan City, LA	Natural Gas	—	Louisiana Energy & Power Authority
36.8 mi	Plaquemine Plaquemine, LA	Natural Gas	—	Louisiana Energy & Power Authority
37.8 mi	Westlake Plaquemine Plaquemine, LA	Natural Gas	306 MW	Westlake Chemicals & Vinyls Llc
38.1 mi	Magnolia Power Plaquemine, LA	Natural Gas	—	Magnolia Power Holdings Llc
39.5 mi	Hargis-Hebert Electric Generating Lafayette, LA	Natural Gas	101 MW	Lafayette Utilities System
40.2 mi	Lao Energy Systems Plaquemine, LA	Natural Gas	465 MW	Dow Chemical Co
40.2 mi	Plaquemine Operations Plaquemine, LA	Natural Gas	—	Dow Chemical Co
40.3 mi	Carville Energy Llc St Gabriel, LA	Natural Gas	555 MW	Carville Energy Llc
40.4 mi	Plaquemine Cogeneration Plant Plaquemine, LA	Natural Gas	987 MW	Dow Chemical Co
40.6 mi	Pcs Nitrogen Fertilizer Lp Geismar, LA	Other Fossil	14 MW	Pcs Nitrogen Lp
40.9 mi	Willow Glen St. Gabriel, LA	Natural Gas	—	Entergy Louisiana Llc
41.5 mi	Geismar Geismar, LA	Natural Gas	84 MW	Basf Corporation
41.6 mi	Thibodaux Thibodaux, LA	Natural Gas	—	Entergy Louisiana Llc
41.6 mi	Shell Chemical Geismar, LA	Natural Gas	80 MW	Shell Chemical Lp - Geismar
42.3 mi	Geismar Cogen Geismar, LA	Natural Gas	84 MW	Air Liquide Large Industries U S Lp
43.4 mi	Rodemacher Lafayette, LA	Natural Gas	—	Lafayette Utilities System
44.0 mi	Mosaic Phosphates Uncle Sam Uncle Sam, LA	Other Fossil	26 MW	Mosaic Phosphates Co.
45.1 mi	Louis Doc Bonin Lafayette, LA	Natural Gas	—	Lafayette Utilities System
45.8 mi	T J Labbe Electric Generating Lafayette, LA	Natural Gas	101 MW	Lafayette Utilities System
47.3 mi	Lsu Cogen Baton Rouge, LA	Natural Gas	20 MW	Lsu And A&m College
47.9 mi	St. James Solar (La) Vacherie, LA	Solar	20 MW	St. James Solar, Llc
48.0 mi	La3 West Baton Rouge Solar Facility West Baton Rouge, LA	Solar	50 MW	Sol Systems
48.3 mi	Vacherie Solar Energy Center, Llc Jefferson, LA	Solar	—	Vacherie Solar Energy Center, Llc
48.9 mi	Houma Houma, LA	Natural Gas	79 MW	Terrebonne Parish Consol Gov't

Power generation near this area

There are 32 power plants within 50 miles of Franklin, Louisiana (ZIP 70538), with a combined 3,525 MW of nameplate capacity. Natural Gas is the most common fuel type in this area with 23 of the 32 nearby plants. The closest plant is Teche at 3.5 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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