NEW ORLEANS – Hurricane season starts today, and scientists predict there could be 13 named storms, with six being hurricanes – two of which are predicted to be major hurricanes of Category 3 or higher.

Severe weather continues to impact communities across Louisiana with greater intensity and frequency, highlighting the importance of year-round preparation and resilience efforts. Extreme conditions are impacting homes, businesses and critical infrastructure throughout the state.

As weather patterns continue to evolve, these events highlight the need for ongoing investments in grid hardening, preventative maintenance and emergency preparedness to help improve reliability and strengthen response efforts during severe weather events.

Entergy Louisiana continues to invest in strengthening and modernizing the electric grid through a multi-year resiliency plan focused on improving reliability and storm response. The company’s resilience investments include upgrades to approximately 3,240 miles of power lines and nearly 62,000 structures across Louisiana to help reduce outages and improve restoration times following severe weather.

Entergy New Orleans is also strengthening its infrastructure to improve resilience during severe weather and restore power more quickly when outages occur. The company has completed the first phase of its $100 million grid hardening program, upgrading more than 3,100 structures across 63 projects to enhance reliability for customers across the city.

These investments keep customer costs as low as possible while strengthening our system and supporting a faster, safer recovery when severe weather strikes.

Prepared for hurricane season
We take a proactive, year-round approach to storm readiness. Ahead of the 2026 season, we completed a series of actions to strengthen our preparedness, including:

• Inspecting utility poles regularly and replace damaged or broken poles when necessary

• Inspecting transmission lines, facilities and power plants in preparation for extreme weather conditions

• Working proactive maintenance plans throughout the year

• Completing additional vegetation trimming to reduce tree-related outages

• Reviewing emergency response plans and positioning crews and equipment

This spring, employees also took part in staging center training, logistics and resource management exercises and a companywide hurricane drill that simulated a major storm making landfall. These sessions help reinforce consistent procedures, improve coordination across teams and ensure our workforce is fully prepared before severe weather arrives.

Customers should prepare now

Safety is one of our core values, and we encourage you to stay safe by being prepared for this hurricane season. You can keep yourself and your family safe by preparing a good personal disaster plan. Learn how to make an emergency kit and get important severe weather safety tips on the Entergy Storm Center.

Safety resources on the Entergy Storm Center include:

• Get prepared: Make a plan, make a kit.

• Your mobile phone: A lifeline during a disaster.

• Stay informed: Stay storm ready.

• Stay safe: Safety after the storm.

• Generator safety: Know the hazards.

• Food safety: Avoid loss and risk of illness.

Additional weather safety information:

• Flooding: Water and electricity don’t mix.

• Hurricanes: Keep yourself and others safe.

• Tornadoes: Nature’s most violent storm.

• Thunderstorms: Prepare for the unpredictable.
• Wildfires: Stay aware and stay safe.

Staying informed before, during and after a tropical system strikes is just as important as making personal storm plans. Here’s how you can stay up to date on our preparations and restoration efforts:

• Download the Entergy app. Customers can use the app to report outages or check on the status of power at their home or business.

• Check our View Outage map show where outages are located and give information about restoration progress.

• Follow us on Facebook, X and Instagram. Social media also plays an important role in keeping you informed, and we place a high priority on updating our social media channels throughout an event.

• Sign up for text messages about storm and restoration efforts by texting REG to 36778.

• Visit the Entergy Storm Center website. The site has storm safety, preparation and restoration information that is updated throughout the day.

• Download the Operation: Storm Ready Guide. This guide will help you plan and prepare for weather emergencies. Versions are available in Spanish and Vietnamese.

About Entergy Louisiana

Entergy Louisiana, LLC provides electric service to more than 1.1 million customers in 58 parishes and natural gas service to more than 94,000 customers in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. 

About Entergy New Orleans

Entergy New Orleans, LLC is an electric utility that serves Louisiana’s Orleans Parish. The company provides electricity to more than 209,000 customers and natural gas to more than 110,000 customers.

Both companies are subsidiaries of Entergy Corporation. Entergy produces, transmits and distributes electricity to power life for 3 million customers through our operating companies in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas. We’re investing for growth and improved reliability and resilience of our energy system while working to keep energy rates affordable for our customers. We’re also investing in cleaner energy generation like modern natural gas, nuclear and renewable energy. A nationally recognized leader in sustainability and corporate citizenship, we deliver more than $100 million in economic benefits each year to the communities we serve through philanthropy, volunteerism and advocacy. Entergy is a Fortune 500 company headquartered in New Orleans, Louisiana, and has approximately 12,000 employees.