Phillip May

President and CEO, Entergy Louisiana

Phillip May is president and CEO of Entergy Louisiana, an electric utility that serves more than 1.1 million customers in 58 Louisiana parishes. He is responsible for the company’s safe and reliable service, financial performance, customer service, regulatory and public affairs, resource planning, economic development programs and charitable contributions.

May is actively engaged in capturing Louisiana’s unprecedented economic growth opportunities. To achieve this, he strategically aligned the company to meet evolving customer expectations by transforming the grid for greater resilience, reliability and sustainability. This includes Louisiana’s first ever $1.9 billion comprehensive grid resilience plan along with the modernization of the generation fleet to meet our customers’ demand for low-carbon and carbon-free energy.

He led the successful effort to combine the Entergy Louisiana and Entergy Gulf States Louisiana operating companies to form a single, stronger utility to serve Louisiana’s customers. In addition, he is implementing Entergy’s long-term strategy to modernize its power generation fleet while helping meet Louisiana’s future energy needs.

Under his leadership, Entergy Louisiana has replaced approximately half of its older, less efficient generation capacity with cleaner more modern units since 2004. The company has also overseen the construction and commercial operation of approximately 3,000 megawatts of modern, efficient generation units, including Nine Mile Unit 6 – Louisiana’s first new power plant in nearly 30 years, along with adding solar and renewable resources.

In 2024, May played a key role in Entergy Louisiana’s partnership with Meta to support the development of a major data center in Richland Parish. This project, which involves a significant investment in infrastructure, will provide reliable, clean energy to power Meta’s growing operations in the region. May’s leadership in facilitating this collaboration underscores his commitment to driving sustainable energy solutions while fostering continued economic growth in Louisiana. May also helped bring to Louisiana a nearly $6 billion Hyundai Steel plant and CF Industries’ approximately $4 billion, world’s largest low-carbon ammonia facility in early 2025.

May joined Entergy in 1986.

He serves on the boards of directors for the Council for a Better Louisiana, GNO Inc. and the Louisiana Board of Regents.

May received an MBA from the University of New Orleans and a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. He also completed the mergers and acquisitions program at the Wharton School in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Entergy Louisiana provides electricity to more than 1.1 million customers in 58 parishes and natural gas service to approximately 95,000 customers in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Entergy Louisiana is a subsidiary of Entergy Corporation. Entergy produces, transmits and distributes electricity to power life for 3 million customers through our operating companies in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas. We’re investing for growth and improved reliability and resilience of our energy system while working to keep energy rates affordable for our customers. We’re also investing in cleaner energy generation like modern natural gas, nuclear and renewable energy. A nationally recognized leader in sustainability and corporate citizenship, we deliver more than $100 million in economic benefits each year to the communities we serve through philanthropy, volunteerism and advocacy. Entergy is a Fortune 500 company headquartered in New Orleans, Louisiana, and has approximately 12,000 employees.

Updated May 2025