Power Plants Near 70706 — Denham Springs, LA

38 power plants within 50 miles of ZIP 70706 (Denham Springs, Louisiana). Click any plant for capacity, generation, emissions, and generator-level detail.

Centroid: 30.6085, -90.9038 · County: Livingston

Natural Gas 56%Nuclear 19%Coal 16%Other Fossil 4%Solar 4%

Distance	Plant	Fuel	Capacity	Operator
18.5 mi	Formosa Plastics Baton Rouge, LA	Natural Gas	101 MW	Formosa Plastics Corp
18.6 mi	Louisiana 1 Baton Rouge, LA	Other Fossil	451 MW	Entergy Louisiana Llc
18.6 mi	Louisiana 2 Baton Rouge, LA	Natural Gas	175 MW	Entergy Louisiana Llc
18.8 mi	Exxonmobil Baton Rouge Turbine Generator Baton Rouge, LA	Natural Gas	85 MW	Exxon Mobil Corp
20.4 mi	Port Allen (La) Port Allen, LA	Natural Gas	8 MW	Placid Refining Co Llc
21.5 mi	Lsu Cogen Baton Rouge, LA	Natural Gas	20 MW	Lsu And A&m College
25.3 mi	Amite Solar, Llc Roseland, LA	Solar	—	Amite Solar, Llc
25.9 mi	St Francisville Mill St. Francisville, LA	Biomass	13 MW	Hood Container Of Louisiana, Llc
26.3 mi	Willow Glen St. Gabriel, LA	Natural Gas	—	Entergy Louisiana Llc
27.2 mi	Big Cajun 1 Jarreau, LA	Natural Gas	493 MW	Louisiana Generating Llc
27.3 mi	La3 West Baton Rouge Solar Facility West Baton Rouge, LA	Solar	50 MW	Sol Systems
27.5 mi	River Bend St. Francisville, LA	Nuclear	1,036 MW	Entergy Louisiana Llc
27.9 mi	Pcs Nitrogen Fertilizer Lp Geismar, LA	Other Fossil	14 MW	Pcs Nitrogen Lp
27.9 mi	Carville Energy Llc St Gabriel, LA	Natural Gas	555 MW	Carville Energy Llc
27.9 mi	Plaquemine Cogeneration Plant Plaquemine, LA	Natural Gas	987 MW	Dow Chemical Co
28.0 mi	Plaquemine Operations Plaquemine, LA	Natural Gas	—	Dow Chemical Co
28.0 mi	Lao Energy Systems Plaquemine, LA	Natural Gas	465 MW	Dow Chemical Co
28.1 mi	Geismar Cogen Geismar, LA	Natural Gas	84 MW	Air Liquide Large Industries U S Lp
28.8 mi	New Roads New Roads, LA	Oil	9 MW	City Of New Roads - (La)
28.8 mi	Geismar Geismar, LA	Natural Gas	84 MW	Basf Corporation
28.8 mi	Big Cajun 2 New Roads, LA	Coal	1,903 MW	Louisiana Generating Llc
29.1 mi	Magnolia Power Plaquemine, LA	Natural Gas	—	Magnolia Power Holdings Llc
29.3 mi	Oxbow Solar 1 New Roads, LA	Solar	300 MW	Lightsource Renewable Energy Asset Management, Llc
29.4 mi	Westlake Plaquemine Plaquemine, LA	Natural Gas	306 MW	Westlake Chemicals & Vinyls Llc
29.5 mi	Shell Chemical Geismar, LA	Natural Gas	80 MW	Shell Chemical Lp - Geismar
31.3 mi	Plaquemine Plaquemine, LA	Natural Gas	—	Louisiana Energy & Power Authority
39.6 mi	Mosaic Phosphates Uncle Sam Uncle Sam, LA	Other Fossil	26 MW	Mosaic Phosphates Co.
40.4 mi	Mondu Solar Llc Livonia, LA	Solar	—	Mondu Solar Llc
40.8 mi	Louisiana Sugar Refining Gramercy, LA	Natural Gas	7 MW	Louisiana Sugar Refining Llc
40.8 mi	Atlantic Alumina, Gramercy Operations Gramercy, LA	Natural Gas	85 MW	Atalco Gramercy Llc
42.5 mi	Sunlight Road Solar Franklinton, LA	Solar	50 MW	Sunlight Road Solar, Llc
43.8 mi	Iris Solar Llc Franklinton, LA	Solar	50 MW	Iris Solar Llc
44.8 mi	Vacherie Solar Energy Center, Llc Jefferson, LA	Solar	—	Vacherie Solar Energy Center, Llc
45.0 mi	St. James Solar (La) Vacherie, LA	Solar	20 MW	St. James Solar, Llc
49.1 mi	St. Charles Power Station (La) La Place, LA	Natural Gas	1,000 MW	Entergy Louisiana Llc
49.2 mi	Waterford 1 & 2 Killona, LA	Natural Gas	932 MW	Entergy Louisiana Llc
49.3 mi	Little Gypsy La Place, LA	Natural Gas	1,003 MW	Entergy Louisiana Llc
49.6 mi	Waterford 3 Killona, LA	Nuclear	1,200 MW	Entergy Louisiana Llc

Power generation near this area

There are 38 power plants within 50 miles of Denham Springs, Louisiana (ZIP 70706), with a combined 11,590 MW of nameplate capacity. Natural Gas is the most common fuel type in this area with 22 of the 38 nearby plants. The closest plant is Formosa Plastics at 18.5 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.

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