Power Plants Near 70584 — Sunset, LA

21 power plants within 50 miles of ZIP 70584 (Sunset, Louisiana). Click any plant for capacity, generation, emissions, and generator-level detail.

Centroid: 30.3884, -92.0934 · County: St. Landry

Natural Gas 58%Coal 32%Solar 8%

Distance	Plant	Fuel	Capacity	Operator
2.5 mi	Sr Sunset Sunset, LA	Solar	—	Sr Sunset, Llc
9.7 mi	T J Labbe Electric Generating Lafayette, LA	Natural Gas	101 MW	Lafayette Utilities System
10.8 mi	Louis Doc Bonin Lafayette, LA	Natural Gas	—	Lafayette Utilities System
11.7 mi	Rodemacher Lafayette, LA	Natural Gas	—	Lafayette Utilities System
15.1 mi	Rayne Rayne, LA	Oil	8 MW	Louisiana Energy & Power Authority
16.0 mi	Prairie Ronde Solar Farm Opelousas, LA	Solar	135 MW	Lightsource Renewable Energy Asset Management, Llc
16.3 mi	Hargis-Hebert Electric Generating Lafayette, LA	Natural Gas	101 MW	Lafayette Utilities System
18.5 mi	Mowata Solar Tbd, LA	Solar	—	Lightsource Renewable Energy Asset Management, Llc
19.2 mi	Acadia Energy Center Eunice, LA	Natural Gas	1,389 MW	Cleco Power Llc
26.6 mi	Eunice La Plant Eunice, LA	Natural Gas	5 MW	Enlink Processing Services, Llc
31.1 mi	Bayou Cove Peaking Power Jennings, LA	Natural Gas	416 MW	Bayou Cove, Llc
32.6 mi	Mondu Solar Llc Livonia, LA	Solar	—	Mondu Solar Llc
33.0 mi	Coughlin Power Station St Landry, LA	Natural Gas	923 MW	Cleco Power Llc
33.7 mi	Luicain Solar Gueydan, LA	Solar	—	Ric Development, Llc
40.1 mi	Enterprise Sugar Factory Jeanerette, LA	Biomass	3 MW	M.a. Patout & Son Limited, Llc
45.7 mi	La3 West Baton Rouge Solar Facility West Baton Rouge, LA	Solar	50 MW	Sol Systems
46.0 mi	Oxbow Solar 1 New Roads, LA	Solar	300 MW	Lightsource Renewable Energy Asset Management, Llc
47.3 mi	Ivanhoe Generation Facility Franklin, LA	Other Fossil	31 MW	Orion Engineered Carbons
48.1 mi	Big Cajun 1 Jarreau, LA	Natural Gas	493 MW	Louisiana Generating Llc
49.0 mi	Big Cajun 2 New Roads, LA	Coal	1,903 MW	Louisiana Generating Llc
49.0 mi	New Roads New Roads, LA	Oil	9 MW	City Of New Roads - (La)

Power generation near this area

There are 21 power plants within 50 miles of Sunset, Louisiana (ZIP 70584), with a combined 5,867 MW of nameplate capacity. Natural Gas is the most common fuel type in this area with 9 of the 21 nearby plants. The closest plant is Sr Sunset at 2.5 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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