Michelle Bourg, Vice President of Customer Service for Entergy Louisiana, and Deanna Rodriguez, Entergy New Orleans President and CEO, detailed power restoration progress in this recorded news conference.
Just 36 hours after Hurricane Francine’s landfall, Entergy’s workforce has returned electrical power to 65% of impacted customers in Louisiana, New Orleans and Mississippi. Crews are restoring power as safely and quickly as possible; however, assessment continues in some areas.
After the first full day of restoration work, more than 50% of customers have been safely restored
The effects of Hurricane Francine continue to disrupt customers’ lives primarily in Louisiana and New Orleans. Damage assessment continues for our customers who lost power due to Hurricane Francine.
Entergy’s Waterford 3 Nuclear Generating Station and River Bend Station in Louisiana and Grand Gulf Nuclear Station in Mississippi operated at full power during Hurricane Francine, which once again shows the resiliency and strength of nuclear power.
As of 4:30 p.m., the storm has caused approximately 11,000 customers to lose power in our service area. Crews have worked as quickly and safely as possible to restore power to approximately 6,500 customers.
Hurricane Francine, currently a tropical depression, continues moving northeastward from Louisiana through Mississippi. At 7 a.m., we had approximately 10,790 customer outages in the southern portion of our Entergy Mississippi territory. Outages are expected to fluctuate throughout the day as the storm moves through our service area and, therefore, are subject to change based upon the storm’s impact.
Entergy’s Louisiana storm team consisting of lineworkers, tree trimmers, and scouts, among other support personnel, are working to simultaneously assess the electric system and restore over 300,000 customers who lost power following Hurricane Francine.
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