During any given week, Rayne Memorial United Methodist Church in Uptown New Orleans hosts hundreds of people for different activities on its campus. Its buildings serve as gathering spaces and include a sanctuary, multipurpose rooms, commercial kitchen, year-round childcare and pre-k program classrooms, a residential home used for offices and missional housing, and a parsonage. Weekly activities include youth education, community meetings, food pantry outreach and more. All of this activity, while a blessing, means that maintenance and energy efficiency are always top of mind for the church staff.

Entergy New Orleans, in partnership with the CSX Corporation, announced the formal designation of a CSX-owned, 76-acre industrial plot on Almonaster Avenue as a “Certified Site” under Louisiana Economic Development’s Certified Sites Program.

The old saying goes “everything is bigger in Texas.” The saying is true when it comes to the surge in the demand for power, too. Because of extraordinary growth throughout the state, specifically in Southeast Texas, we need more electricity, and we need it fast. Southeast Texas is in a great position to create thousands of new and better jobs and boost economic development, but our success relies heavily on sufficient power.