Entergy and Accenture, a professional services company, have partnered a second year with Grambling State University in Louisiana to develop an innovation and technology workforce of the future through an internship program called Level Up.
A team of Entergy employee volunteers and members of Quad Area Community Action Agency worked together to weatherize the home of Gerry Matherne in Laplace.
Entergy crews expect to restore power to customers in North Louisiana and the Baton Rouge area who were affected by storms Friday through Sunday morning by sometime today. In the Baton Rouge area specifically, crews anticipate being able to restore all customers who can safely accept electric service around noon today.
Entergy crews and contractors are continuing to make progress restoring power to customers across Louisiana who were affected by back-to-back storms over the weekend and will continue working safely until all customers have been restored.
Entergy crews and contractors are continuing to restore power in North Louisiana and Greater Baton Rouge after back-to-back storms impacted those regions of the state over the weekend.
As Entergy crews and contractors narrow in on areas in North Louisiana that were hard hit by recent storms, crews further south in the Greater Baton Rouge area are just beginning to assess damage and restore power where it is safe to do so after the region was impacted by a strong storm that brought high winds and hail Saturday afternoon.
Entergy Louisiana crews are continuing to make progress restoring power to customers in North Louisiana after intense storms impacted the area early Friday. Of the 41,000 customers that were impacted at the peak, approximately 5,100 remain without power in the hardest-hit areas.
Entergy Louisiana crews are continuing to make progress restoring power to customers in North Louisiana after intense storms impacted the area early this morning. More than 75% of affected customers (or 30,700 of the 41,000 customers that were out at the peak) who can safely accept electric service have been restored.
A destructive line of storms with high winds swept across North Louisiana this morning, knocking out power to thousands of customers from Bossier to East Carrol and Madison parishes. In just a few hours, crews have been able to restore power to approximately 10,000 customers.
Spring symbolizes a new beginning, but when it comes to seasonal changes, the uncertainty of weather remains.