Hurricane Isaac – Entergy

Entergy Shareholders Donate $355,000 for Community Agencies to Support Hurricane Isaac Victims

Entergy Team — Sat, 29 Sep 2012 08:27:00 +0000

Entergy’s Louisiana utilities announce donations to benefit United Way, Red Cross, Second Harvest, St. Bernard Project, Our Daily Bread, Baton Rouge Food Bank; Companies also expand bill assistance programs for customers in affected areas BATON ROUGE, La. – In the wake of Hurricane Isaac’s damaging winds and flooding, Entergy Louisiana, LLC and Entergy Gulf States Louisiana, L.L.C.

Source

Entergy Provides Hurricane Isaac Update

Entergy Team — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 11:00:00 +0000

NEW ORLEANS – After slow-moving Hurricane Isaac struck southeastern Louisiana in late August, leaving more than 787,000 customers from Louisiana, Mississippi and Arkansas without electricity, ��ϳԹ�� (NYSE: ETR) today provided an update on preliminary financial effects, liquidity resources and recovery initiatives. Total restoration costs for the repair and/or replacement of the…

Source

Hurricane Isaac Restoration Continues in Hardest-Hit Louisiana Areas

Entergy Team — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 11:46:00 +0000

650 Customers in South Louisiana Cannot Take Power due to Flooding NEW ORLEANS – Entergy is focusing its restoration efforts on about 3,400 customers who are able to safely take power. At its peak, the storm left approximately 704,000 customers in Louisiana without power. The majority of those customers are in lower Plaquemines Parish, where the restoration effort is very dynamic due to…

Source

DOE Official Assesses Hurricane Isaac Damage

Entergy Team — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 11:15:00 +0000

Calls Pace of Restoration Progress “Unbelievable” NEW ORLEANS – A U.S. Department of ��ϳԹ�� official from the Office of Electricity Delivery and ��ϳԹ�� Reliability praised ��ϳԹ�� for its response to Hurricane Isaac after completing a preliminary inspection of the damage and restoration work in Louisiana. “The typical benchmark for utility companies is to restore power to 70…

Source

Hurricane Isaac Restoration Work Continues

Entergy Team — Sun, 02 Sep 2012 11:50:00 +0000

Damage Estimates, Restoration Times Provided NEW ORLEANS – Entergy crews restored power to tens of thousands more homes and businesses today as they continued repairing damage left by Hurricane Isaac. As of 4 p.m. Saturday, Entergy’s storm team had restored electricity to approximately 389,000 of the 769,000 customers who were left in the dark by the slow-moving Isaac’s relentless winds and…

Source

Hurricane Isaac Delivers Strong Blow to Entergy System

Entergy Team — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 10:58:00 +0000

Slow-moving Storm Fourth Largest in Company History NEW ORLEANS – Isaac knocked out power to more than 769,000 Entergy utility customers Thursday as the slow-moving storm continued wreaking havoc on its path through Louisiana, Mississippi and Arkansas. At its peak early Thursday morning, Isaac left 769,458 customers without power, making it the fourth-most damaging storm in Entergy history in…

Source

Hurricane Isaac Pounds South Louisiana

Entergy Team — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 23:16:00 +0000

Customer Outages Total 409,000; More Expected as Storm Moves Through Louisiana NEW ORLEANS – Hurricane Isaac’s high winds and slow trek through southeastern Louisiana have caused extensive outages to Entergy’s power grid. As of 5 a.m. Wednesday, 409,000 customers were without electricity in Louisiana. Isaac came ashore in Plaquemines Parish at 6:45 p.m. Tuesday with maximum sustained winds of…

Source

Entergy Removed Waterford 3 from Service in Advance of Hurricane Isaac

Entergy Team — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 11:20:00 +0000

KILLONA, La. – Entergy officials today made the conservative decision to bring the Waterford 3 Steam Electric Station offline in advance of Hurricane Isaac’s landfall. The plant began powering down at roughly 3 p.m. Tuesday afternoon and is now offline. Both Waterford 3 in Killona, La. and River Bend Station, near St. Francisville, La. have sequestered roughly 100 core employees each…

Source

Entergy Readies for Hurricane Isaac

Entergy Team — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 04:53:00 +0000

Company building workforce of more than 4,000 workers NEW ORLEANS – Entergy is working to amass a workforce of more than 4,000 company and contract workers to help restore power as it prepares for the impacts of Hurricane Isaac and the probability that the storm could affect all or significant parts of Entergy’s service territory. Some contract crews have already arrived. Entergy has core teams…

Source