Entergy Louisiana, LLC has restored power to customers in Louisiana who can safely receive it after extremely cold temperatures and back-to-back winter storms that brought freezing rain and ice significantly impacted the company’s electric system.
Second Winter Storm in a Week Impacting Customers in Central, North Louisiana
Company asks customers to conserve between 5 p.m. and 10 p.m.
Action Requested Due to Demand Potentially Exceeding Available Generation
Action Requested Due to Demand Potentially Exceeding Available Generation
Mandatory rolling outages took place last night about two hours and affected approximately 60,000 customers across the state, who experienced temporary outages ranging between 11 to 45 minutes.
The directive includes all of MISO’s south region, spanning from Arkansas to Texas to the Gulf South
Entergy has initiated additional power outages for its customers across its four-state service area. The company is taking this action as directed by our reliability coordinator, the Midcontinent Independent System Operator, as a last resort and in order to prevent more extensive, prolonged power outages that could severely affect the reliability of the power grid.
Entergy continues to return customers to service, prepares for additional winter weather.
Entergy’s Louisiana storm crews are continuing to assess damage and restore power where it is safe to do so after a winter storm brought extremely cold temperatures, freezing rain and large amounts of ice accumulations to the state Sunday and throughout Monday.
Entergy Louisiana has started power outages for its customers across the southwestern portion of its service territory.
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