Brame Energy Center, Louisiana

The Brame Energy Center (also known as Rodemacher Power Plant) is a large power plant located near Boyce, Louisiana, adjacent to Lake Rodemacher, a 3,000-acre artificial lake which supplies the plant's cooling water. The plant is home to three multi-fuel units, whose combined output capacity is around 1,590MW. Unit 1 has an output capacity of 440MW, and can run on either natural gas or low-sulfur fuel oil. Unit 2 has an output capacity of 550MW, and employs coal from Wyoming's Powder River Basin as its fuel. Unit 3 has an output capacity of 600MW, and currently uses petroleum coke (a by-product of oil refining) for fuel. The petroleum coke is transported by barge from the oil refineries in southern Louisiana where it originates, up the Mississippi and Red Rivers to a 1.5-mile-long tubular conveyor belt which delivers it to the plant. Units 1, 2, and 3 became operational in 1975, 1982, and 2010 respectively. The plant is mostly owned and operated by Cleco Power LLC.