EntergyFACTS

Entergy’s Guiding Ideals and Key Facts

If we can’t do it safely, we don’t do it. End of story. Nothing is more important to Entergy than the safety of its customers and employees.

• Entergy has reduced the rate of lost-work-day incidents continually since 1998.
• In 2005, Entergy’s safety performance placed it in the top 10 percent of companies as rated by the benchmarking agencies Southwestern Electric Exchange, Southwest Electric Safety Exchange and Organization Resources Counselors.
• Our transmission team of approximately 1,000 employees worked 1 million hours in 2006 without a lost-time accident.
• As of the end of 2006, more than 30 of our nuclear, fossil, distribution and transmission sites had achieved “Star” status under the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s Voluntary Protection Program – the highest possible safety rating for an industrial work site.

We lead the industry with integrity. We don’t do the right thing to stay out of trouble or get ahead. We do the right thing because it’s the right thing. Our culture demands the highest ethical standards.

• Entergy’s sound ethical principles, along with its innovative initiatives in the community, have propelled the company to the forefront of the industry.
• Our adherence to our values has earned us respect and a reputation as a company that improves its community.
• In 2007, Entergy was named to the Forbes list of America’s Most Trustworthy Companies for its corporate governance practices and accounting transparency. Entergy was the only electric utility to make the list, which was drawn from 8,000 public companies.
• Doing the right thing, such as braving the elements, can be tough. But we do it every time, as evidenced by Entergy’s winning an Edison Electric Institute award for Emergency Response or Emergency Assistance for nine straight years. It is the only utility in the country to do so.

We never, ever coast. Entergy is good, very good at keeping the lights on and getting them back on after storms. Proof? Two words: Katrina and Rita.

• Hurricanes Katrina and Rita caused nearly 2 million outages. With the help of numerous other utilities from all over the country, Entergy employed approximately 13,500 workers who managed to restore service to all structures that could take electricity by Oct. 15, 2005.
• Improvements to Entergy’s distribution and transmission infrastructure since 1998 have resulted in a 48 percent reduction in frequency of outages and a 32 percent decrease in the length of outages.

We improve the quality of life in our communities. Entergy is committed to participating in the development and improvement of the communities in which we live.

• In 2006, Entergy employees and retirees logged nearly 14,000 volunteer hours.
• Also in 2006, Entergy and its charitable foundation awarded more than 2,900 grants totaling over $9 million.
• Entergy low-income assistance initiatives contributed $2.4 million to assist more than 18,000 needy families and individuals with utility bills in 2006.
• Entergy is the only U.S. utility to make the Dow Jones Sustainability Index six years in a row. The DJSI is a listing of the companies whose overall environmental, social and economic sustainability performance scores were in the top 10 percent for their sector.
• Entergy is the second cleanest utility generator among the top 10 generators and was the first U.S. utility to voluntarily stabilize greenhouse gas emissions.

We empower with trust and respect. What’s at the heart of a great place to work? At Entergy, we believe it is the trust and respect that we place in our employees. The company values and respects its employees and works hard to make sure they know it.

• Entergy offers a competitive total rewards package of compensation and benefits, and pays for performance through incentive plans and merit pay increases.
• Entergy helps employees prepare for the future through retirement and savings plans and student scholarships.
• Entergy invests in an employee development program that encourages employees to create career plans for accomplishing their goals through continuing education, specialized training, cross-training opportunities and special team projects.
• Entergy promotes an inclusive work environment through more than 20 diversity and inclusion councils and employee-initiated affinity groups.

We’re leading the rebirth of nuclear energy in the United States. Entergy began pursuing a national nuclear growth strategy in 1998 by buying nuclear energy plants that no one wanted. Today, Entergy is the largest nuclear operator in the Northeast and the second-largest in the nation, operating 12 units.

• In 2003 Entergy won the highest award given to a utility company, the Global Power Company of the Year award. BusinessWeek said Entergy has created “one of the nation’s most efficient and safest fleets of nuclear energy plants.”
• With Katrina bearing down, we lived our safety-first operating philosophy. Entergy shut down its Waterford 3 nuclear plant 25 miles west of New Orleans sooner than procedures required, just to make sure the reactor was safe.
• In 2007, Entergy Nuclear received one of the first early site permits in the country from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for a possible new nuclear unit at the Grand Gulf site in Mississippi.
• We are the first company to commit to preparing two combined Construction and Operating Licenses for new nuclear plants at two different sites – through NuStart Energy Development LLC at Grand Gulf and River Bend Station near St. Francisville, La.

Quick Facts

• Entergy employs approximately 14,300 people.
• Entergy owns and operates power plants with approximately 30,000 megawatts of electric generating capacity.
• Entergy is the second-largest nuclear generator in the United States.
• Entergy delivers electricity to 2.7 million utility customers in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas.
• Entergy supplies natural gas to approximately 179,000 customers in Baton Rouge and New Orleans.
• Entergy operates a system composed of more than 15,500 miles of high-voltage transmission lines and 1,550 transmission substations.
• Entergy is a Fortune 500 company with revenues of more than $11 billion in 2007.
• Entergy and its charitable foundation awarded more than $9 million in grants in 2006.