As customers cozy up with their favorite pumpkin spiced dish and fuzzy socks, Entergy reminds you to get started on your fall home maintenance and to take additional safety measures in and around your home. Please take a moment to review these common seasonal risks and how you can prevent accidents before they happen.
Entergy’s Louisiana storm team is ready to respond to any impacts from Hurricane Zeta.
New Orleans’ businesses play a significant role in our everyday lives, and Entergy New Orleans is committed to powering life every time a “we’re open” sign comes on.
Entergy is enlarging its storm team to respond to any impacts across Louisiana from tropical storms Marco and Laura. The company is assembling a restoration workforce of approximately 3,800 workers and continues to acquire more as forecasts for Laura indicate a potential Louisiana landfall.
At Entergy, we make every attempt to limit customer interruptions. To keep the power reliably flowing, Entergy crews frequently work to make reliability upgrades to improve equipment with newer, more modern technology.
Entergy New Orleans’ customers are now being served by a stronger, more resilient electrical grid.
Providing a helping hand to the community is an act of kindness Entergy employees take part in year-round, even in times of crisis. As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, in-person volunteering with our community partners has been put on hold due to physical distancing orders to prevent the spread of the virus. But rising to the challenge, Entergy employees found safe and innovative ways to continue the company’s commitment to creating and sustaining healthy, educated, thriving and vibrant communities.
Entergy New Orleans has extended the suspension of customer disconnections for non-payment. While the Company’s initial suspension does not expire until April 15, 2020, it has become clear that because of both the direct and indirect impacts of COVID-19, it is necessary to extend the temporary suspension of customer disconnects for nonpayment until May 15, 2020. The Company will continue to monitor the situation and will extend if necessary.
Entergy, United Way of Southeast Louisiana and the Louisiana Hospitality Foundation announced the creation of the Hospitality Cares Pandemic Response Fund to provide crisis grants to hospitality workers who are unable to afford basic financial needs during the COVID-19 outbreak.
For the sixth year in a row, Santa and his Entergy elves completed their annual “Operation Secret Santa” mission by paying the utility bills of 21 customers through The Power to Care , Entergy’s low-income bill assistance program.
What may have been an upsetting loss for New Orleans Saints fans turned out to be a weekend to remember for senior lineman Wayne Kamm who was recognized as Entergy’s Lineman of the Game during the Saints v. Atlanta Falcons match-up. During each New Orleans Saints home game, Entergy and the Saints honor a lineman for outstanding performance on the job and in the community.
David Ellis, president and CEO of Entergy New Orleans, discussed Entergy’s partnership with the United Negro College Fund for a segment highlighted this spring at the annual UNCF Mayor’s Masked Ball—a signature fundraising gala honoring local supporters.
Lonnie Hamilton has been driving boats all his life — a skill that’s handy in the Bayou State, where there’s way more water than land.
A workforce of more than 3,900 Entergy scouts, line crews and contractors are continuing to perform damage assessments and restoration where it is safe to do so as Barry, which made landfall yesterday as a Category 1 hurricane, continues a northerly track through Louisiana.
Barry, which briefly became a Category 1 hurricane Saturday before being downgraded to a tropical storm, continues to crawl across Louisiana, delivering heavy rains, high winds, coastal flooding and power outages. As of 6:30 p.m. Saturday, approximately 63,500 customers were without power across the state.