Gas power plant in Louisiana, United States of America. Approximate location 30.4922, -91.1864.
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Louisiana 2 is a 175 MW gas power station in Louisiana, United States of America. It ranks #2158 of 10,938 United States of America power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1951, it is around 75 years old — an older, legacy facility. In context, gas supplies about 40.0% of United States of America's electricity; the national grid averages 384 gCO₂/kWh (43.0% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id USA0001392.
Known, modelled and calculated values are kept separate. Missing fields are shown as unavailable.
The capacity and/or fuel fields on this page include a source-backed provenance label from GEM, an official registry, Wikidata, OSM, or a cross-source match.
capacity: Wikidata P2109; fuel: WRI GPPD
At 175 MW, Louisiana 2 is well above the median gas plant in United States of America (121.2 MW). Technically it is described as Steam. Its current lifecycle status is “Mothballed” — so it is not yet, or no longer, generating at full output. Gas plants burn natural gas either in open-cycle turbines for fast peaking, or in combined-cycle units that recover exhaust heat in an HRSG to reach roughly 55–62% efficiency — the cleanest-burning fossil option.
Capacity comparison computed from the WRI Global Power Plant Database; fuel-type context is general engineering background.
The #957 largest gas power plant of 2165 in United States of America by capacity.
United States of America has 2165 gas power plants in this dataset, together about 789,950 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 30.4922, -91.1864 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Louisiana 2 is a 175 MW gas power plant in Louisiana, United States of America, commissioned in 1951.
