New Orleans, La. – Entergy Corporation (NYSE: ETR) has been named to the Forbes list of America’s Most Trustworthy Companies for its corporate governance practices and accounting transparency.

Entergy is the only electric utility to make the list, which was drawn from 8,000 public companies. Particularly significant is Entergy’s top-five rating among the large capitalization companies listed.

Using more than 200 accounting and governance metrics, Audit Integrity, an independent Los Angeles-based firm, generated the list of 100 companies showing the highest degree of accounting transparency and fair dealing to stakeholders during 2006.

For more information about the list and methodology, please visit www.forbes.com/leadership/governance.

Entergy Corporation is an integrated energy company engaged primarily in electric power production and retail distribution operations. Entergy owns and operates power plants with approximately 30,000 megawatts of electric generating capacity, and it is the second-largest nuclear generator in the United States. Entergy delivers electricity to 2.6 million utility customers in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas. Entergy has annual revenues of over $10 billion and approximately 14,000 employees.

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Entergy’s online address is www.entergy.com.