Business at Entergy
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Utility Operations
Entergy’s electric utilities generate, transmit, distribute and sell electric power in a four-state service territory that includes portions of Arkansas, Mississippi, Texas and Louisiana, including the city of New Orleans. Entergy also operates natural gas distribution businesses in New Orleans and Baton Rouge. Entergy serves approximately 2.8 million customers.
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Entergy’s Utility companies:
• Entergy Arkansas, Inc.
• Entergy Gulf States Louisiana, L.L.C.
• Entergy Louisiana, LLC
• Entergy Mississippi, Inc.
• Entergy New Orleans, Inc.
• Entergy Texas, Inc.
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Nothing is more important to Entergy than the safety of its customers and employees:
• As of 2011, 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.
• In 2011, Entergy employees had the lowest total number of recordable safety incidents in company history.
• In 2011, Entergy achieved the lowest Recordable Accident Index (a standardized OSHA index for comparing accident rates) in company history.
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Nuclear Operations
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Entergy Nuclear’s fleet headquarters is located in Jackson, Miss. Through diligent attention to the cornerstones of safety, operations, cost and people, Entergy Nuclear has become one of the nation’s leading nuclear generators.
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• With more than 10,000 megawatts of nuclear capacity, Entergy is one of the nation’s leading nuclear generators. Entergy operates 12 units:
o Arkansas Nuclear One Units 1 and 2 near Russellville, Ark.
o Cooper in Brownville, Neb.*
o James A. FitzPatrick in Oswego County, N.Y
o Grand Gulf Nuclear Station in Port Gibson, Miss.
o Indian Point Energy Center Units 2 & 3 in Westchester County, N.Y.
o Palisades in Covert, Mich.
o Pilgrim Nuclear Station in Plymouth, Mass.
o River Bend Station in St. Francisville, La.
o Vermont Yankee in Vernon, Vt.
o Waterford 3 in Taft, La.
* Owned by Nebraska Public Power District. Entergy provides management services.
• Entergy is the nation’s largest provider of license renewal and decommissioning services to the nuclear power industry.
• Entergy’s total output from its nuclear plants is approximately 10,000 megawatts.
Click here for more information about Entergy’s nuclear operations.
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Fossil Operations
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Entergy’s regulated fossil fleet includes all plants that are fully or partially owned by Entergy’s six utility companies in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas.
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• Entergy’s regulated fossil fleet includes all plants that are fully or partially owned by Entergy’s six utility companies – Entergy Arkansas, Inc. Entergy Gulf States Louisiana, L.L.C., Entergy Louisiana, LLC, Entergy Mississippi, Inc., Entergy New Orleans, Inc., and Entergy Texas, Inc.
• This includes 32 natural gas, coal, oil and hydroelectric generating facilities spread across Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas and Mississippi, with the capacity to generate more than 18,000 megawatts of power.
• Entergy also operates and maintains, but does not own, two petroleum coke-fired units at the 200-megawatt Nelson Industrial Steam Company plant, near Lake Charles, La.; Toledo Bend Reservoir in Burkeville, Texas, an 80-megawatt hydroelectric generating facility owned by the Sabine River Authorities of Texas and Louisiana; and La. Station 1 Unit 5a, a cogeneration gas-fired unit that produces 190 megawatts of electricity for a neighboring facility owned by Exxon.
• Entergy is one of the cleanest electricity generators in the United States because of the variety of fuels that it uses to generate power.
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Transmission
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Entergy’s transmission system delivers approximately 23,000 megawatts of power within a 114,000 square mile area, provides top-quartile cost performance, and is recognized by the marketplace for delivery reliability.
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This organization moves power at high voltage from generating plants across a grid of approximately 15,700 miles of interconnected lines and 1,300 substations to distribution points for delivery to the company’s 2.8 million customers, as well as providing nondiscriminatory transmission service to wholesale suppliers and customers in the company’s service territory.
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