Entergy has been taking voluntary action on greenhouse gas emissions since 2001, when we became the first U.S. utility to set a goal to stabilize our emissions.
We operate one of the cleanest large-scale power generation fleets in the country, as noted in the independent Benchmarking Air Emissions Report and illustrated in this chart of the carbon dioxide emission rate based on 2024 total generation of the top 20 privately or investor-owned U.S. power producers.
Early action helped make us one of the cleanest large-scale power generation fleets in the country. By year-end 2025, our utility carbon dioxide emission rate — including both owned and purchased power — was 34.6% below the rate in 2000.
As industrial growth across our region accelerates, we are working with regulators, customers and other stakeholders to provide energy that is affordable, reliable and increasingly lower carbon.
We also work to mitigate the Gulf South’s climate risks and the impact severe weather has on the communities where our customers and employees live and work. Our approach to environmental stewardship includes support for customer solutions like distributed energy, energy efficiency and demand response solutions that help customers lower their own energy use and associated emissions. At the same time, we are investing in our grid, making our electric system more resilient to today’s and future environmental conditions.
Our path to net-zero emissions
We remain committed to a lower-carbon future and in particular to the goal of achieving net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. Our progress toward that goal includes our intention to cease the use of coal as a generation resource by the end of 2030, unless those resources are needed to meet customer demand and maintain reliability. We are also committed to being transparent about our climate strategy, both our progress and the challenges we face, currently including significant growth in electric demand, especially from our largest customers, and a dynamic policy and regulatory environment that directly affects the scale at which we can invest in clean energy resources without unacceptable impacts on affordability.
Our commitment to transparency includes:
- Annual disclosure of a comprehensive (Scope 1, 2 and 3) greenhouse gas emissions inventory.
- Regular reporting of our carbon dioxide emissions intensity and carbon-free generation capacity.
- Disclosure, as soon as practicable, of scenario-based analyses that describe what a path to net zero would look like under different enabling conditions.
- Regular engagement with customers, regulators, technology providers and other stakeholders on solutions that support affordability, reliability, resilience and a lower-carbon future.
- Keeping our stakeholders informed of our future planning.
Adding renewable energy
We’re responding to customer demand for renewable energy.
Our customers are seeking cleaner generation resources, including renewables. Renewable technologies available today include wind, geothermal, hydroelectric, biomass, waste heat and solar. Entergy’s generation resource mix already includes many of these technologies, as noted in the illustration below. As we look to add more renewables to our mix, the resource most available in our region that best meets our objective of balancing affordability, reliability and sustainability is solar energy. Even as the expiration of federal tax credits supporting solar development challenges future plans for new solar generation, we are actively pursuing solar projects that qualify for tax credits before they expire. In addition, there are new opportunities for customer-led solar generation development that support our large commercial and industrial customers’ own sustainability goals.
Learn more about Entergy’s renewable energy resources here.
As we add more solar, Entergy is exploring the viability of other clean energy technologies, including both available and emerging technologies as illustrated below.
Evaluating new nuclear options
Nuclear energy delivers carbon-free, reliable electricity 24 hours a day.
Entergy operates five reactors at four sites, and we are well-positioned to evaluate new nuclear options such as modular reactors, traditional gigawatt-scale plants and upgrades to existing sites. We are engaged with state-sponsored efforts to evaluate new nuclear development in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas. that are evaluating the potential for nuclear expansion in those states.
We are also working with new customers on options to pursue possible new nuclear investments to sustainably power their operations. We are engaged with state-sponsored efforts to evaluate new nuclear development in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas.
Read more about our nuclear energy generation.
Adding new cleaner natural gas resources
To meet our region’s expanding industrial growth, Entergy is adding cleaner natural gas generation resources.
New natural gas plants are more efficient and produce fewer greenhouse gas emissions than our legacy gas-powered plants. They are also equipped with the option for carbon capture and storage, a technology that mitigates emissions and is continuing to develop. To address regulatory and cost challenges for this emerging technology, we are working with both industry organizations and our regulators. We are also exploring potential customer-led opportunities while engaging with stakeholders on educational initiatives that highlight the benefits of CCS as a viable technology for achieving our long-term decarbonization goal. Additionally, these new plants are designed for lower-emission hydrogen co-firing, should hydrogen as a fuel source become a viable option in the future.