Power Plants Near 70874 — Baton Rouge, LA

31 power plants within 50 miles of ZIP 70874 (Baton Rouge, Louisiana). Click any plant for capacity, generation, emissions, and generator-level detail.

Centroid: 30.5902, -91.2054 · County: East Baton Rouge Parish

Natural Gas 47%Coal 25%Nuclear 14%Other Fossil 7%Solar 5%Hydroelectric 3%

Distance	Plant	Fuel	Capacity	Operator
6.4 mi	Formosa Plastics Baton Rouge, LA	Natural Gas	101 MW	Formosa Plastics Corp
6.9 mi	Louisiana 1 Baton Rouge, LA	Other Fossil	451 MW	Entergy Louisiana Llc
6.9 mi	Louisiana 2 Baton Rouge, LA	Natural Gas	175 MW	Entergy Louisiana Llc
7.0 mi	Exxonmobil Baton Rouge Turbine Generator Baton Rouge, LA	Natural Gas	85 MW	Exxon Mobil Corp
7.8 mi	Port Allen (La) Port Allen, LA	Natural Gas	8 MW	Placid Refining Co Llc
10.6 mi	Big Cajun 1 Jarreau, LA	Natural Gas	493 MW	Louisiana Generating Llc
10.9 mi	St Francisville Mill St. Francisville, LA	Biomass	13 MW	Hood Container Of Louisiana, Llc
11.5 mi	La3 West Baton Rouge Solar Facility West Baton Rouge, LA	Solar	50 MW	Sol Systems
12.3 mi	Oxbow Solar 1 New Roads, LA	Solar	300 MW	Lightsource Renewable Energy Asset Management, Llc
12.5 mi	Lsu Cogen Baton Rouge, LA	Natural Gas	20 MW	Lsu And A&m College
13.5 mi	New Roads New Roads, LA	Oil	9 MW	City Of New Roads - (La)
13.5 mi	Big Cajun 2 New Roads, LA	Coal	1,903 MW	Louisiana Generating Llc
13.8 mi	River Bend St. Francisville, LA	Nuclear	1,036 MW	Entergy Louisiana Llc
18.6 mi	Plaquemine Cogeneration Plant Plaquemine, LA	Natural Gas	987 MW	Dow Chemical Co
18.8 mi	Plaquemine Operations Plaquemine, LA	Natural Gas	—	Dow Chemical Co
18.8 mi	Lao Energy Systems Plaquemine, LA	Natural Gas	465 MW	Dow Chemical Co
22.1 mi	Plaquemine Plaquemine, LA	Natural Gas	—	Louisiana Energy & Power Authority
22.4 mi	Mondu Solar Llc Livonia, LA	Solar	—	Mondu Solar Llc
22.5 mi	Willow Glen St. Gabriel, LA	Natural Gas	—	Entergy Louisiana Llc
22.9 mi	Westlake Plaquemine Plaquemine, LA	Natural Gas	306 MW	Westlake Chemicals & Vinyls Llc
23.5 mi	Magnolia Power Plaquemine, LA	Natural Gas	—	Magnolia Power Holdings Llc
26.3 mi	Carville Energy Llc St Gabriel, LA	Natural Gas	555 MW	Carville Energy Llc
26.6 mi	Pcs Nitrogen Fertilizer Lp Geismar, LA	Other Fossil	14 MW	Pcs Nitrogen Lp
29.2 mi	Geismar Cogen Geismar, LA	Natural Gas	84 MW	Air Liquide Large Industries U S Lp
29.6 mi	Geismar Geismar, LA	Natural Gas	84 MW	Basf Corporation
30.8 mi	Shell Chemical Geismar, LA	Natural Gas	80 MW	Shell Chemical Lp - Geismar
42.1 mi	Amite Solar, Llc Roseland, LA	Solar	—	Amite Solar, Llc
42.2 mi	Sidney A Murray Jr Hydroelectric Vidalia, LA	Hydroelectric	192 MW	First National Bank-Commerce
44.3 mi	Mosaic Phosphates Uncle Sam Uncle Sam, LA	Other Fossil	26 MW	Mosaic Phosphates Co.
48.6 mi	Louisiana Sugar Refining Gramercy, LA	Natural Gas	7 MW	Louisiana Sugar Refining Llc
48.9 mi	Atlantic Alumina, Gramercy Operations Gramercy, LA	Natural Gas	85 MW	Atalco Gramercy Llc

Power generation near this area

There are 31 power plants within 50 miles of Baton Rouge, Louisiana (ZIP 70874), with a combined 7,527 MW of nameplate capacity. Natural Gas is the most common fuel type in this area with 19 of the 31 nearby plants. The closest plant is Formosa Plastics at 6.4 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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