Louisiana residents have used a lot of power over the past couple of months, and that increased usage coupled with high natural gas prices used to produce electricity has impacted utility bills.

The Energy Smart program was recognized for its efforts to advance innovations in residential energy efficiency programs and technologies to improve the affordability of home energy upgrades for diverse households through Home Performance with ENERGY STAR. This marks the fourth time Entergy New Orleans has been recognized by the Department of Energy for its efforts with Energy Smart, following awards in 2014, 2016, 2020 and 2021.

We’re monitoring the approaching winter storm closely. While rain and freezing temperatures are forecast for the majority of our service area, we are preparing to move additional crews to northwest Mississippi in the event customers in that area experience outages due to the forecasted ice. We are prepared to call in additional crews if needed.