JACKSON, Miss. – Many factors can impact energy bills, including the summer heat, which often results in people lowering the temperature on their thermostat and pushing their air conditioner into overdrive. However, using this method to stay cool on the hottest days of the year can significantly increase your electricity use and, subsequently, your bill.

But there are ways to stay comfortable and keep your bill affordable! Entergy recommends simple energy-efficiency tips, like closing blinds and curtains, and keeping the thermostat set on 78 degrees or the highest comfortable temperature. These free or low-cost steps can go a long way in conserving energy. However, if you have already received a high bill, here are six helpful options to manage costs or get help:

• – Entergy averages your bill over a rolling 12-month period, so you have a consistent bill each month of the year. Pay about the same every month, with no surprises.
• – Choose what day of the month you get billed to line up with your budget and manage your cash flow.
• Deferred Payment – Talk with us about your situation and we may be able to make deferred payment arrangements. Call 1-800-ENTERGY (1-800-368-3749).
• Payment Extension – Qualifying customers who need additional time to pay their bill can call our automated answering system at 1-800-ENTERGY (1-800-368-3749) or request an extension through .
• Power to Care – Through Entergy’s The Power to Care program, local nonprofit agencies can provide emergency bill payment assistance to seniors and disabled individuals in crisis. Find out more at .
• LIHEAP – LIHEAP (Low Income Home ���ϳԹ��� Assistance Program) provides money to help people with energy bills and other energy-related expenses. LIHEAP is funded through the federal government and works with community action agencies to help people pay for and keep electric service in their homes. For information on how to apply visit .

Entergy also encourages customers to download the company’s mobile phone app to monitor usage (if you have a smart meter) to be more energy efficient before the next bill arrives.

���Գٱ������’s can also help. The program offers free in-home energy assessments and rebates to help reduce the up-front cost of installing energy-efficient equipment, such as high-efficiency HVAC tune-ups, insulation, air sealing and duct sealing.

Customers can also buy energy-efficiency products and upgrades through an . 

Customers who are behind on bill payments or have a concern about their bill should reach out to the company either or by phone at 1-800 ENTERGY (1-800-368-3749). Our representatives can investigate your account or describe available bill help options that may work best for you and your family.

About Entergy Mississippi

Entergy Mississippi, LLC provides electricity to approximately 461,000 customers in 45 counties. Entergy Mississippi is a subsidiary of ���ϳԹ���, an integrated energy company engaged in electric power production, transmission and retail distribution operations. Entergy delivers electricity to 3 million utility customers in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas. Entergy owns and operates one of the cleanest large-scale U.S. power generating fleets with approximately 30,000 megawatts of electric generating capacity, including 7,000 megawatts of nuclear power. Headquartered in New Orleans, Louisiana, Entergy has annual revenues of $10 billion and approximately 12,500 employees.

Installing advanced meters and the supporting communications network is one of several investments we have made to build a smarter, more resilient grid for everyone. Other enhancements include , the new and improved customer engagement portal, advanced software known as the Advance Distribution Management System used to visualize and control the distribution grid, the addition of new smart devices that can communicate with each other, and the ADMS system to coordinate and implement changes when an event occurs.

“Over the last few years, Entergy has significantly modernized the grid, most recently completing three million new meter installations across our four-state service area,” said Dale Claudel, ���Գٱ������’s vice president of grid modernization and strategy. “These new technologies bring real benefits to our customers, like putting more control in their hands to better manage their energy usage. It also gives us clearer insight to the power grid and how it is operating, ultimately creating a smarter energy future for our customers and communities.”

Advanced meters work together with other smart grid technology to identify power outages more accurately and automatically isolate them, which reduces outage times for our customers.

“These upgrades also lay the foundation for newer technologies and customer solutions, including distributed energy resources and energy storage,” Claudel said. “For example, solar panels combined with battery storage can play a key role in grid resiliency and flexibility in the near future. Our team is refining ways to integrate advanced energy technologies into the power grid and provide clean energy solutions for our customers.”

Be in control with myAdvisor

Advanced meters provide customers with many benefits, including online energy management tools to help you better manage your energy usage and potentially save money on monthly energy bills.

After logging into your online, the customizable myAdvisor dashboard provides an overview of your account and personalized information:

• Usage and Cost: Compare energy usage and costs by month, day, hour and even 15-minute intervals for electric customers and one-hour intervals for gas customers. Also, see impacts of the weather, temperature and rainfall and view estimates of how energy is being consumed.
• Bill History: View past bills, including a breakdown of energy charges and fees to see how they change from month to month.
• Bill Projection: Get an estimate of what an upcoming bill may be, based on usage remaining similar over billing cycle.
• Bill Analyzer: Compare bills to the previous month and year, to understand impacts that may have been caused by the number of billing days, energy usage, fuel costs and weather.
• Home Assessment: Make these energy-saving tools more personalized to your home, including predicted savings and customized goals.
• Savings Plan: Create a plan to help track savings and receive customized recommend actions to help meet savings goals.
• Proactive Alerts: Set alerts to be notified by email or text for notifications set to your frequency preferences for the following:
• Usage has surpassed threshold amount set.
• Cost has surpassed threshold amount set.
• Status of usage and cost based on goals set.
• Bill Projection: All registered myEntergy customers with an advanced meter can receive a notice of their estimated monthly bill during the billing cycle.

Customers can access these tools through or ���Գٱ������’s mobile app.

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JACKSON, Mississippi– Grid modernization technologies can provide customers with money saving tools and help Entergy improve outage restoration and customer service.

Entergy Mississippi announced today its plan to deploy grid modernization technologies, paving the way for a smarter energy future that will offer a wide range of benefits to customers. It’s all part of the company’s long-term vision to use widely-adopted modern technologies to provide safe, reliable and affordable energy to customers.

Entergy Mississippi’s grid modernization initiatives include upgrading to advanced meters and expanding online energy management tools for customers.

The new technology includes a sophisticated communications network that will provide operators a clearer real-time picture of the power grid and how it is operating. This allows for outages to be identified more accurately so crews can arrive on the scene more quickly to make repairs.

It will also provide timely and more detailed information on their energy usage which will allow customers to adjust their power consumption between bills.

“We have an obligation and responsibility to power our customers’ lives through reliable and affordable service,” said Haley Fisackerly, president and CEO of Entergy Mississippi, Inc. “Working with the Mississippi Public Service Commission, we’re committed to helping our communities flourish. That means getting the lights back on quicker and helping businesses and residents save money.”

Benefits of this smarter energy future include:

• Stronger and “smarter” localized electrical infrastructure to help improve system resiliency by helping us identify outages and restore electricity more quickly and potentially spot problems before they occur.
• More tools and better information to help customers understand and manage their energy use more effectively, which can lead to lower bills.
• Improved customer service, including better information that will allow us to answer customers’ billing and service questions more quickly and effectively.
• The technology in place to potentially launch new programs to help further encourage and improve energy reduction and contribute to environmentally sustainable communities.

As part of this announcement, Entergy Mississippi is launching an informational website () around its vision for a smarter energy future. The company made its filing related to advanced metering infrastructure with the Public Service Commission today.

Deployment of advanced meters is expected to begin in 2019, with project completion scheduled for 2021.

Entergy Mississippi, Inc. provides electricity to approximately 445,000 customers in 45 counties. It is a subsidiary of ���ϳԹ���. ���ϳԹ��� is an integrated energy company engaged primarily in electric power production and retail distribution operations. Entergy owns and operates power plants with approximately 30,000 megawatts of electric generating capacity, including nearly 10,000 megawatts of nuclear power. Entergy delivers electricity to 2.8 million utility customers in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas. Entergy has annual revenues of more than $11.5 billion and more than 13,000 employees.

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