For many team members, the phrase “always learning” is a mantra in most daily conversations, but seeing this value being taught to the future engineers of tomorrow is an important one to witness. Recently, students from the Madison Central High School Academy of Engineering were able to visit Entergy facilities and take full advantage of their partnership with the company.

In our 100-year history of providing reliable and affordable power to Mississippians, no area has a chapter in our story like that of the Rex Brown Cooling Pond. The chapter, which we’ve officially finished by returning the property back to Jackson Public Schools, played a critical role in keeping the lights on for thousands of homes and businesses.

The consecutive weather events caused some customers to experience repeated outages, and since Wednesday, April 2, crews have restored a total of 75,000 power outages. Throughout the effort, nearly 800 team members, including lineworkers, tree trimmers, damage assessors and support personnel, worked to restore power as quickly and safely as possible.

As of 6:45 p.m. this evening, significant progress has been made in restoring power to those customers impacted by the high winds, thunderstorms, lightning, and reported tornado activity that impacted the Entergy Mississippi service territory yesterday into early Sunday morning. Approximately 2,090 customers are without power, down from the peak of 14,483 that was reached at 4:30 a.m.

Mississippi crews, contractors, tree trimmers and scouts are working diligently to restore power to more than 14,400 customers after thunderstorms, high winds and tornado activity moved through the service area Saturday evening into early Sunday morning. As of 12:00 p.m. Sunday, crews have restored power to 7,400 customers, and approximately 50% remain without power.

As of 8:00 p.m., crews have restored power to more than 88% of customers. Approximately 2,100 customers remain without power, down from approximately 18,300. We’ve identified damages to more than 70 poles, 35 transformers, 75 cross arms, and 12 miles of downed wire.