The Entergy Mississippi Lineman Rodeo and Family Fun Day, held recently at the Mississippi Coliseum, provided the opportunity for apprentice and journeyman linemen to showcase their skills and allowed family and friends to watch them compete.
This is our home, too, and most of us at Entergy are customers just like you. We know it’s important to you that we deliver reliable power at an affordable price. In fact, we take this responsibility to heart and it’s more important than ever that our teams work diligently every day to help keep your bills as low as possible.
We thank you for your patience while we restored over 18,500 customers who lost power as a result of the thunderstorms with high winds, heavy rain and lightning that moved through the Entergy Mississippi service territory Sunday night through Tuesday afternoon.
Recently at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, Entergy proudly continued its partnership with the American Indian College Fund, or the College Fund, by announcing a significant grant aimed at enhancing educational opportunities for Native American students.
Entergy New Orleans and Gibbs Construction have received the Louisiana Landmarks Society “2024 Award for Excellence in Historic Preservation” for restoration work on the Claiborne Substation located at 425 Elysian Fields Avenue. This is a major milestone for Entergy New Orleans and our partners marking the successful planning, restoration, and revitalization of this historic site.
A stronger, more resilient New Orleans starts with meaningful investments in our communities. For the sixth consecutive year, Entergy New Orleans proudly sponsored Rebuilding Together New Orleans’ annual Build and Boil, reaffirming our long-standing commitment to community development and neighborhood revitalization.
Preparing for stormy weather is what we do at Entergy. As part of our extensive year-round focus on incident preparation, Entergy employees recently participated in an annual tropical storm exercise.
We continue to make progress in restoring power due to severe thunderstorms bringing high winds, heavy rain, lightning and thunderstorm activity that passed through the Entergy Mississippi service territory Sunday night and this afternoon causing customer outages.
High winds, heavy rain, lightning and thunderstorm activity brought down trees and limbs, causing approximately 18,500 storm related outages across the service area. As of 2:30 p.m. Tuesday, power had been restored to 15,022 customers. Past drought conditions also continue to make dead trees outside of the right-of-way a cause of many outages.
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