Power Plants Near 70836 — Baton Rouge, LA

43 power plants within 50 miles of ZIP 70836 (Baton Rouge, Louisiana). Click any plant for capacity, generation, emissions, and generator-level detail.

Centroid: 30.3920, -91.0892 · County: East Baton Rouge Parish

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

Distance	Plant	Fuel	Capacity	Operator
5.6 mi	Lsu Cogen Baton Rouge, LA	Natural Gas	20 MW	Lsu And A&m College
8.3 mi	Willow Glen St. Gabriel, LA	Natural Gas	—	Entergy Louisiana Llc
8.9 mi	Exxonmobil Baton Rouge Turbine Generator Baton Rouge, LA	Natural Gas	85 MW	Exxon Mobil Corp
9.0 mi	Louisiana 1 Baton Rouge, LA	Other Fossil	451 MW	Entergy Louisiana Llc
9.0 mi	Louisiana 2 Baton Rouge, LA	Natural Gas	175 MW	Entergy Louisiana Llc
9.3 mi	Port Allen (La) Port Allen, LA	Natural Gas	8 MW	Placid Refining Co Llc
9.4 mi	Formosa Plastics Baton Rouge, LA	Natural Gas	101 MW	Formosa Plastics Corp
9.9 mi	Plaquemine Operations Plaquemine, LA	Natural Gas	—	Dow Chemical Co
9.9 mi	Lao Energy Systems Plaquemine, LA	Natural Gas	465 MW	Dow Chemical Co
9.9 mi	Plaquemine Cogeneration Plant Plaquemine, LA	Natural Gas	987 MW	Dow Chemical Co
10.6 mi	Magnolia Power Plaquemine, LA	Natural Gas	—	Magnolia Power Holdings Llc
10.8 mi	Westlake Plaquemine Plaquemine, LA	Natural Gas	306 MW	Westlake Chemicals & Vinyls Llc
11.3 mi	Carville Energy Llc St Gabriel, LA	Natural Gas	555 MW	Carville Energy Llc
11.6 mi	Pcs Nitrogen Fertilizer Lp Geismar, LA	Other Fossil	14 MW	Pcs Nitrogen Lp
12.9 mi	Plaquemine Plaquemine, LA	Natural Gas	—	Louisiana Energy & Power Authority
13.9 mi	Geismar Cogen Geismar, LA	Natural Gas	84 MW	Air Liquide Large Industries U S Lp
14.3 mi	Geismar Geismar, LA	Natural Gas	84 MW	Basf Corporation
15.3 mi	La3 West Baton Rouge Solar Facility West Baton Rouge, LA	Solar	50 MW	Sol Systems
15.5 mi	Shell Chemical Geismar, LA	Natural Gas	80 MW	Shell Chemical Lp - Geismar
25.1 mi	Big Cajun 1 Jarreau, LA	Natural Gas	493 MW	Louisiana Generating Llc
26.1 mi	St Francisville Mill St. Francisville, LA	Biomass	13 MW	Hood Container Of Louisiana, Llc
26.2 mi	Oxbow Solar 1 New Roads, LA	Solar	300 MW	Lightsource Renewable Energy Asset Management, Llc
28.4 mi	New Roads New Roads, LA	Oil	9 MW	City Of New Roads - (La)
28.5 mi	Big Cajun 2 New Roads, LA	Coal	1,903 MW	Louisiana Generating Llc
29.0 mi	Mosaic Phosphates Uncle Sam Uncle Sam, LA	Other Fossil	26 MW	Mosaic Phosphates Co.
29.1 mi	River Bend St. Francisville, LA	Nuclear	1,036 MW	Entergy Louisiana Llc
31.1 mi	Mondu Solar Llc Livonia, LA	Solar	—	Mondu Solar Llc
33.8 mi	Louisiana Sugar Refining Gramercy, LA	Natural Gas	7 MW	Louisiana Sugar Refining Llc
34.3 mi	Atlantic Alumina, Gramercy Operations Gramercy, LA	Natural Gas	85 MW	Atalco Gramercy Llc
35.8 mi	Vacherie Solar Energy Center, Llc Jefferson, LA	Solar	—	Vacherie Solar Energy Center, Llc
35.9 mi	St. James Solar (La) Vacherie, LA	Solar	20 MW	St. James Solar, Llc
43.1 mi	Amite Solar, Llc Roseland, LA	Solar	—	Amite Solar, Llc
44.2 mi	Thibodaux Thibodaux, LA	Natural Gas	—	Entergy Louisiana Llc
45.6 mi	Waterford 1 & 2 Killona, LA	Natural Gas	932 MW	Entergy Louisiana Llc
45.9 mi	St. Charles Power Station (La) La Place, LA	Natural Gas	1,000 MW	Entergy Louisiana Llc
46.0 mi	Waterford 3 Killona, LA	Nuclear	1,200 MW	Entergy Louisiana Llc
46.0 mi	Little Gypsy La Place, LA	Natural Gas	1,003 MW	Entergy Louisiana Llc
46.8 mi	Taft Cogeneration Facility Hahnville, LA	Natural Gas	894 MW	Occidental Chemical Corporation
47.8 mi	Dow St Charles Operations Taft, LA	Natural Gas	324 MW	Dow Chemical Co - St Charles
47.8 mi	Teche Baldwin, LA	Natural Gas	391 MW	Cleco Power Llc
47.8 mi	Franklin (La) Franklin, LA	Natural Gas	—	Cleco Power Llc
48.8 mi	Morgan City Morgan City, LA	Natural Gas	—	Louisiana Energy & Power Authority
48.8 mi	Lepa Unit No. 1 Morgan City, LA	Natural Gas	74 MW	Louisiana Energy & Power Authority

Power generation near this area

There are 43 power plants within 50 miles of Baton Rouge, Louisiana (ZIP 70836), with a combined 13,173 MW of nameplate capacity. Natural Gas is the most common fuel type in this area with 29 of the 43 nearby plants. The closest plant is Lsu Cogen at 5.6 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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