Entergy Louisiana expects to have power restored this evening to customers who can safely accept it following Hurricane Barry's impact to Louisiana. Customers who remain without power are those that can only be accessed by boat. Work will continue on these few water route single service cases until all power is restored.
Despite flooding and accessibility issues in some of the hardest-hit areas, a storm team of more than 4,000 is making significant progress in restoring power to customers following Hurricane Barry.
Despite flooding and accessibility issues in some of the hardest-hit areas, a storm team of more than 4,000 has nearly completed power restoration to customers following Hurricane Barry. As of 5 p.m. Tuesday, approximately 2,500 customers remain without power in Louisiana, mainly concentrated in the Bayou Region. Since Barry first started affecting Louisiana, we have restored some 330,000 customer outages.
Crews have made considerable progress overnight restoring customers impacted by Hurricane Barry. As of 9 a.m. Tuesday, less than 5,200 customers remain without power. The company expects to restore service to the majority of customers who can accept it by tonight, with those in the hardest hit areas in the Greater Baton Rouge area, as well as Lafourche and Terrebonne parishes, estimated to be restored by tomorrow.
Despite flooding and accessibility issues in some of the hardest-hit areas, a storm team of more than 4,000 are making significant progress in restoring power to customers following Hurricane Barry.
Entergy executives and government officials gathered in Westlake, Louisiana, on Jan. 22, 2018, to break ground for the Lake Charles Power Station, an $872 million natural gas-fired combined-cycle unit. The plant, which is scheduled to be in commercial operation by June 2020, will produce enough energy to meet the average power needs of 675,000 Louisiana homes.
Entergy’s Louisiana utilities continue to monitor Tropical Storm Barry and are preparing for potential impact to the state. A team of more than 1200 crew members have been assembled to respond to the storm, and an additional 770 workers from other neighboring Entergy utilities have been mobilized to assist with restoration in Louisiana. Entergy also can call in additional crews to assist pending the path and intensity of the storm.
Entergy Louisiana continues to monitor the disturbance located off the coast of Florida as it moves toward the central Gulf of Mexico. Though the storm is currently poorly organized, Entergy Louisiana is prepared for the possibility that this weather system could bring severe thunderstorms, strong winds, heavy rains, higher tides and coastal flooding to the state.
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