Sterlington
BrownfieldSterlington, Ouachita, Louisiana · Entergy Louisiana LLC
Sterlington is a natural gas plant in Sterlington, Ouachita, Louisiana, retired 2019-01-01. Retired generation sites are among the most attractive datacenter redevelopment targets: the existing interconnection was sized for roughly 415 MW of generation, so the grid hookup, transmission rights, and often cooling-water access are already in place — collapsing the speed-to-power timeline versus a greenfield build.
Former use & capacity
Grid hookup & remediation
Site conditions & market — Ouachita Parish
County-level intelligence for this site's location — the power economics, water, hazard, connectivity, and workforce a developer screens before ever visiting. Assembled from FEMA NRI, BLS QCEW, FCC BDC, USGS water-use, and EIA.
Market & workforce
Power economics & interconnection
Water & cooling
Hazard, flood & connectivity
County-level context — address-level utility offerings and flood zoning vary within the county. Confirm site-specific service with the utility and a Phase I ESA.
Nearby brownfield & retired-generation sites
A proximity screen of other retired-plant, contaminated, and EPA-flagged sites near Sterlington — the environmental neighborhood, ranked by legacy grid capacity.
| Site | Former use | Legacy MW | Distance | Cleanup status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monroe (LA) | natural gas plant | 138 | 13.8 mi | — |
| Plant 31 Paper Mill | natural gas plant | 18 | 15.6 mi | — |
Derived from GridCensus's retired-generator & EPA brownfield dataset. Not a substitute for an ASTM E1527 Phase I environmental radius report.
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Nearby datacenter candidate sites
Scored candidate sites near Sterlington, ranked by DC Readiness.
| Site | Type | State | County | Voltage | Capacity | Queue wait | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| STERLINGTON | Substation-Adjacent | LA | Morehouse Parish | 500 kV | 1,000 MW | 2.8 yrs | 62.0 |
| STERLINGTON | Substation-Adjacent | LA | Ouachita Parish | 500 kV | 1,000 MW | 2.8 yrs | 62.0 |
| Monroe (LA) | Brownfield | LA | Ouachita Parish | — | 138 MW | 1.4 yrs | 58.4 |
| OZ Ouachita | Greenfield | LA | Ouachita | — | — | 1.4 yrs | 57.8 |
| OZ Morehouse | Greenfield | LA | Morehouse | — | — | 1.4 yrs | 57.3 |
| EC Near Plant 31 Paper Mill | Greenfield | LA | Ouachita | — | — | 1.4 yrs | 57.2 |
| UNKNOWN112561 | Substation-Adjacent | LA | Ouachita Parish | 115 kV | 100 MW | 2.8 yrs | 56.7 |
| EC Near Plant 31 Paper Mill | Greenfield | LA | Ouachita | — | — | 1.4 yrs | 56.4 |
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Dataset updated . Screening estimates derived from public data sources.
Brownfield attributes are derived from EIA retired-generator and EPA public data. Existing capacity reflects the retired plant's historical nameplate, not deliverable interconnection for a new load. Confirm reusable interconnection rights, remediation status, and site availability with the utility, ISO, and current owner.
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This page shows a public slice of the GridCensus dataset for Sterlington, Sterlington, Ouachita, Louisiana. Pro and Enterprise plans unlock the full 147,272-site catalog, raw sub-scores, parcel ownership, interconnection-queue detail, saved searches, and programmatic API access.