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EntergyFACTS
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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 concluded 2009 as the safest year in
company history with the lowest injury rate, the lowest lost work day injury
rate and the lowest contractor injury rate.
- Entergy has reduced the rate of
lost-work-day incidents continually since 1998.
- As of year-end 2009, 70 Entergy work sites
had earned Star status under the Occupational Safety and Health
Administration’s Voluntary Protection Program (OSHA VPP), the highest possible
safety rating for an industrial work site.
- Entergy’s Distribution organization turned
in a stellar safety performance in 2009 reducing total number of injuries by
28 percent compared to 2008.
- In 2009, Entergy was recognized by the Dow
Jones Sustainability Index World Listing for the Best Utility Safety Program.
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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. |
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Entergy’s sound ethical principles, along with its innovative initiatives in the community, have propelled the company to the forefront of the industry.
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Our adherence to our values has earned us respect and a reputation as a company that improves its community.
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In 2011, Corporate Responsibility magazine named Entergy one of the “100
Best Corporate Citizens” in the nation. It was the fourth time in five years
that Entergy earned the distinction. The magazine’s annual ranking is based on
an analysis of publicly available information used to rank performance of the
1,000 largest companies in seven areas: climate change, environment,
philanthropy, employee relations, financial, governance and human rights.
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In 2008, for the second year in a row, Entergy was named to the Forbes list of America’s Most Trustworthy Companies for its corporate governance practices and accounting transparency.
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More awards and recognition.
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We never, ever coast.
Entergy is good, very good at keeping the lights on and getting them back on
after storms. |
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Improvements to Entergy’s distribution and
transmission infrastructure since 1998 have resulted in a 51 percent reduction
in frequency of outages and a 24 percent decrease in the length of outages.
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Entergy’s employees and contractors executed
the safest and fastest storm restoration effort in the company’s history
following two back-to-back hurricanes that struck within a two-week period in
2008.
- Entergy is recognized as a leader
in safe, effective storm restoration. Entergy has received an
Edison Electric
Institute storm response award for 13 consecutive years. Entergy is the only
company to be honored every year since the EEI Emergency Response Awards were
first presented in early 1999. Entergy has won five awards for its efforts
restoring power to its own customers and 10 awards for helping other utilities
repair their systems.
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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. |
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Entergy and its Charitable Foundation awarded
grants totaling $16.3 million in 2010.
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Entergy along with its employees and customers
raised more than $2.3 million in local bill payment assistance funds in 2010.
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In 2011, for the 10th straight year, Entergy was recognized as a leader in
sustainability, ranking among the best in climate strategy, corporate
governance, occupational health and safety, price and risk management, and
scorecard measurements. Entergy was named to the
2011-12 Dow Jones Sustainability North America Index, one of only 13 U.S.
utilities included on that list. DJSI North America evaluates the largest North
American companies based on long-term economic, environmental and social
criteria. Entergy has been included on either the Dow Jones Sustainability World
Index or DJSI North America every year since 2002.
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Entergy was the first U.S. utility to voluntarily commit to stabilize its
greenhouse gas emissions.
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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. |
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Entergy offers a competitive total rewards package of compensation and benefits, and pays for performance through incentive plans and merit pay increases.
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Entergy helps employees prepare for the future through retirement and savings plans and student scholarships.
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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.
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Entergy promotes an inclusive work environment through more than 20 diversity and inclusion councils and employee-initiated
employee resource groups.
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We’re leading the way with nuclear clean air energy.
Entergy began pursuing a national nuclear growth strategy in 1998 by buying
nuclear energy plants. Today, Entergy is the second-largest in North America and
eighth largest nuclear fleet in the world, operating or providing management
services to 12 reactors in eight states. |
- 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 in August of 2005, Entergy shut down its Waterford
3 nuclear plant 25 miles west of New Orleans and Waterford 3 was safely powered
up after being on generator power for five days following Katrina. It is a
hurricane-hardened facility that provides 1,176 megawatts of power in the state
of Louisiana.
- Entergy Nuclear lives up to its commitment to diversity in the workforce.
Donna Jacobs, Senior Vice President is one example. She was honored with the
2009 Mary Jane Oestmann Professional Women’s Achievement Award from the American
Nuclear Society. Jacobs holds the distinction of being the first woman plant
manager of a domestic nuclear power plant and was the first American recipient
of the Women In Nuclear Global Woman of the Year Award.
- In 2010 Entergy was recognized with the nuclear industry’s top honors: The
Top Industry Practice “Best of the Best” award to Palisades Power Plant in
Michigan for a reactor head inspection robot; and the worldwide “Nuclear Project
of the Year” given by Power Engineering for an innovation to radiation shielding
using tungsten awarded to Arkansas Nuclear One.
- More Entergy
Nuclear awards and recognition.
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Quick Facts
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Entergy employs approximately 15,000 people.
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Entergy owns and operates power plants with approximately 30,000 megawatts of electric generating capacity.
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Entergy is the second-largest nuclear generator in the United States.
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Entergy delivers electricity to 2.7 million utility customers in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas.
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Entergy supplies natural gas to approximately 191,000 customers in Baton Rouge and New Orleans.
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Entergy operates a system composed of more than 15,500 miles of high-voltage transmission lines and 1,550 transmission substations.
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Entergy is a Fortune 500 company with revenues of more than $11 billion in 2010.
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Entergy and its Charitable Foundation awarded grants totaling $16.3 million in
2010.
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