Home / Power plants / Louisiana / Ouachita

Ouachita

Natural gas power plant · Ouachita County, Louisiana

Nameplate capacity
904 MW
Rank in Louisiana
#13
of 98 plants
In service since
2002
August 2002

Details

Primary fuel
Natural gas
Technology
Natural Gas Fired Combined Cycle
Operator
Entergy Louisiana LLC
County
Ouachita County
Generating units
6
Share of state capacity
3.09%
Rank among natural gas plants in Louisiana
#8 of 53
EIA plant code
55467

Generating units

Individual generating units at Ouachita
UnitTechnologyNameplateSummerOnlineStatus
CTG1Natural Gas Fired Combined Cycle179 MW2002Operating
CTG2Natural Gas Fired Combined Cycle179 MW2002Operating
CTG3Natural Gas Fired Combined Cycle179 MW2002Operating
STG1Natural Gas Fired Combined Cycle122 MW234 MW2002Operating
STG2Natural Gas Fired Combined Cycle122 MW242 MW2002Operating
STG3Natural Gas Fired Combined Cycle122 MW243 MW2002Operating

Nameplate is the maximum rated output; summer capacity is what the unit can reliably deliver on a hot day, which is typically lower.

Similarly sized plants in Louisiana

St. Charles Power Station (LA)Natural gas1,000 MW
Coughlin Power StationNatural gas923 MW
Taft Cogeneration FacilityNatural gas894 MW
Perryville Power StationNatural gas824 MW

About this data

From EIA’s inventory of operable generators, May 2026 release. Capacity is nameplate — the maximum rated output of the equipment, not what the plant actually generates over a year, which depends on how often it runs. A 904 MW solar plant and a 904 MW nuclear plant have the same entry here and produce very different amounts of electricity.

“In service since” is the earliest in-service date among the units still listed, so a site rebuilt around newer equipment can read as younger than the site itself. All Louisiana power plants · What Louisiana actually generates