Power Plants Near 70780 — Sunshine, LA

49 power plants within 50 miles of ZIP 70780 (Sunshine, Louisiana). Click any plant for capacity, generation, emissions, and generator-level detail.

Centroid: 30.2982, -91.1799 · County: Iberville

Natural Gas 62%Nuclear 17%Coal 14%Other Fossil 4%Solar 3%

Distance	Plant	Fuel	Capacity	Operator
2.8 mi	Westlake Plaquemine Plaquemine, LA	Natural Gas	306 MW	Westlake Chemicals & Vinyls Llc
3.3 mi	Magnolia Power Plaquemine, LA	Natural Gas	—	Magnolia Power Holdings Llc
3.4 mi	Lao Energy Systems Plaquemine, LA	Natural Gas	465 MW	Dow Chemical Co
3.4 mi	Plaquemine Operations Plaquemine, LA	Natural Gas	—	Dow Chemical Co
3.6 mi	Plaquemine Cogeneration Plant Plaquemine, LA	Natural Gas	987 MW	Dow Chemical Co
4.1 mi	Willow Glen St. Gabriel, LA	Natural Gas	—	Entergy Louisiana Llc
4.9 mi	Plaquemine Plaquemine, LA	Natural Gas	—	Louisiana Energy & Power Authority
7.8 mi	Lsu Cogen Baton Rouge, LA	Natural Gas	20 MW	Lsu And A&m College
8.3 mi	Carville Energy Llc St Gabriel, LA	Natural Gas	555 MW	Carville Energy Llc
8.9 mi	Pcs Nitrogen Fertilizer Lp Geismar, LA	Other Fossil	14 MW	Pcs Nitrogen Lp
12.5 mi	Port Allen (La) Port Allen, LA	Natural Gas	8 MW	Placid Refining Co Llc
12.7 mi	Geismar Geismar, LA	Natural Gas	84 MW	Basf Corporation
12.8 mi	Geismar Cogen Geismar, LA	Natural Gas	84 MW	Air Liquide Large Industries U S Lp
13.2 mi	Exxonmobil Baton Rouge Turbine Generator Baton Rouge, LA	Natural Gas	85 MW	Exxon Mobil Corp
13.4 mi	Louisiana 1 Baton Rouge, LA	Other Fossil	451 MW	Entergy Louisiana Llc
13.4 mi	Louisiana 2 Baton Rouge, LA	Natural Gas	175 MW	Entergy Louisiana Llc
13.9 mi	Formosa Plastics Baton Rouge, LA	Natural Gas	101 MW	Formosa Plastics Corp
14.0 mi	Shell Chemical Geismar, LA	Natural Gas	80 MW	Shell Chemical Lp - Geismar
14.7 mi	La3 West Baton Rouge Solar Facility West Baton Rouge, LA	Solar	50 MW	Sol Systems
27.6 mi	Mosaic Phosphates Uncle Sam Uncle Sam, LA	Other Fossil	26 MW	Mosaic Phosphates Co.
28.0 mi	Big Cajun 1 Jarreau, LA	Natural Gas	493 MW	Louisiana Generating Llc
28.5 mi	Oxbow Solar 1 New Roads, LA	Solar	300 MW	Lightsource Renewable Energy Asset Management, Llc
29.4 mi	Mondu Solar Llc Livonia, LA	Solar	—	Mondu Solar Llc
29.8 mi	St Francisville Mill St. Francisville, LA	Biomass	13 MW	Hood Container Of Louisiana, Llc
31.6 mi	New Roads New Roads, LA	Oil	9 MW	City Of New Roads - (La)
31.6 mi	Big Cajun 2 New Roads, LA	Coal	1,903 MW	Louisiana Generating Llc
33.0 mi	River Bend St. Francisville, LA	Nuclear	1,036 MW	Entergy Louisiana Llc
34.2 mi	Louisiana Sugar Refining Gramercy, LA	Natural Gas	7 MW	Louisiana Sugar Refining Llc
34.9 mi	Atlantic Alumina, Gramercy Operations Gramercy, LA	Natural Gas	85 MW	Atalco Gramercy Llc
34.9 mi	St. James Solar (La) Vacherie, LA	Solar	20 MW	St. James Solar, Llc
34.9 mi	Vacherie Solar Energy Center, Llc Jefferson, LA	Solar	—	Vacherie Solar Energy Center, Llc
39.4 mi	Teche Baldwin, LA	Natural Gas	391 MW	Cleco Power Llc
39.4 mi	Franklin (La) Franklin, LA	Natural Gas	—	Cleco Power Llc
41.0 mi	Thibodaux Thibodaux, LA	Natural Gas	—	Entergy Louisiana Llc
41.9 mi	Morgan City Morgan City, LA	Natural Gas	—	Louisiana Energy & Power Authority
42.0 mi	Lepa Unit No. 1 Morgan City, LA	Natural Gas	74 MW	Louisiana Energy & Power Authority
42.1 mi	Neptune Gas Processing Plant Centerville, LA	Other Fossil	5 MW	Enterprise Products Optg Lp
42.5 mi	Enterprise Sugar Factory Jeanerette, LA	Biomass	3 MW	M.a. Patout & Son Limited, Llc
45.8 mi	St. Mary Clean Energy Center Centerville, LA	Other Fossil	51 MW	Cleco Power Llc
46.8 mi	Waterford 1 & 2 Killona, LA	Natural Gas	932 MW	Entergy Louisiana Llc
46.9 mi	Exxonmobil Garden City Gas Plant Centerville, LA	Natural Gas	—	Exxon Mobil Production Co
47.2 mi	Waterford 3 Killona, LA	Nuclear	1,200 MW	Entergy Louisiana Llc
47.4 mi	St. Charles Power Station (La) La Place, LA	Natural Gas	1,000 MW	Entergy Louisiana Llc
47.4 mi	Little Gypsy La Place, LA	Natural Gas	1,003 MW	Entergy Louisiana Llc
48.0 mi	Taft Cogeneration Facility Hahnville, LA	Natural Gas	894 MW	Occidental Chemical Corporation
49.0 mi	Ivanhoe Generation Facility Franklin, LA	Other Fossil	31 MW	Orion Engineered Carbons
49.1 mi	Dow St Charles Operations Taft, LA	Natural Gas	324 MW	Dow Chemical Co - St Charles
49.3 mi	Hargis-Hebert Electric Generating Lafayette, LA	Natural Gas	101 MW	Lafayette Utilities System
49.6 mi	Rodemacher Lafayette, LA	Natural Gas	—	Lafayette Utilities System

Power generation near this area

There are 49 power plants within 50 miles of Sunshine, Louisiana (ZIP 70780), with a combined 13,363 MW of nameplate capacity. Natural Gas is the most common fuel type in this area with 32 of the 49 nearby plants. The closest plant is Westlake Plaquemine at 2.8 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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