Power Plants Near 70598 — Lafayette, LA

20 power plants within 50 miles of ZIP 70598 (Lafayette, Louisiana). Click any plant for capacity, generation, emissions, and generator-level detail.

Centroid: 30.2081, -92.0951 · County: Lafayette

Natural Gas 94%Solar 5%

Distance	Plant	Fuel	Capacity	Operator
3.6 mi	Louis Doc Bonin Lafayette, LA	Natural Gas	—	Lafayette Utilities System
4.5 mi	T J Labbe Electric Generating Lafayette, LA	Natural Gas	101 MW	Lafayette Utilities System
5.5 mi	Rodemacher Lafayette, LA	Natural Gas	—	Lafayette Utilities System
6.7 mi	Hargis-Hebert Electric Generating Lafayette, LA	Natural Gas	101 MW	Lafayette Utilities System
10.7 mi	Rayne Rayne, LA	Oil	8 MW	Louisiana Energy & Power Authority
14.8 mi	Sr Sunset Sunset, LA	Solar	—	Sr Sunset, Llc
22.4 mi	Mowata Solar Tbd, LA	Solar	—	Lightsource Renewable Energy Asset Management, Llc
24.3 mi	Acadia Energy Center Eunice, LA	Natural Gas	1,389 MW	Cleco Power Llc
26.9 mi	Luicain Solar Gueydan, LA	Solar	—	Ric Development, Llc
28.1 mi	Prairie Ronde Solar Farm Opelousas, LA	Solar	135 MW	Lightsource Renewable Energy Asset Management, Llc
30.5 mi	Enterprise Sugar Factory Jeanerette, LA	Biomass	3 MW	M.a. Patout & Son Limited, Llc
30.6 mi	Bayou Cove Peaking Power Jennings, LA	Natural Gas	416 MW	Bayou Cove, Llc
31.4 mi	Eunice La Plant Eunice, LA	Natural Gas	5 MW	Enlink Processing Services, Llc
36.7 mi	Ivanhoe Generation Facility Franklin, LA	Other Fossil	31 MW	Orion Engineered Carbons
38.7 mi	Mondu Solar Llc Livonia, LA	Solar	—	Mondu Solar Llc
42.5 mi	Teche Baldwin, LA	Natural Gas	391 MW	Cleco Power Llc
42.5 mi	Franklin (La) Franklin, LA	Natural Gas	—	Cleco Power Llc
45.0 mi	Coughlin Power Station St Landry, LA	Natural Gas	923 MW	Cleco Power Llc
47.9 mi	Exxonmobil Garden City Gas Plant Centerville, LA	Natural Gas	—	Exxon Mobil Production Co
48.9 mi	La3 West Baton Rouge Solar Facility West Baton Rouge, LA	Solar	50 MW	Sol Systems

Power generation near this area

There are 20 power plants within 50 miles of Lafayette, Louisiana (ZIP 70598), with a combined 3,552 MW of nameplate capacity. Natural Gas is the most common fuel type in this area with 11 of the 20 nearby plants. The closest plant is Louis Doc Bonin at 3.6 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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