Beyond Katrina (Free subscription) | 06/09/2008
Oh happy day! I got my power back this evening. I was told my neighborhood wouldn't be restored for another 7-10 days ---so this was a welcome surprise! Here's the skinny on the rest of the state: NEW ORLEANS -...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 06/09/2008
NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 5 -- Entergy Corporation utilities are restoring power to customers affected by Hurricane Gustav at the fastest rate in the company's history. "We have restored power to more customers in four days than w...
Minor Wisdom (Free subscription) | 06/09/2008
I’m happy to report that sometime this afternoon, the Ward household finally got some electricity from Entergy. What a relief! Nevertheless, a lengthy power failure isn’t all bad. For one thing, it prompted us to recover a New Orleans tradition:...
Beyond Katrina (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
Most Baton Rouge area customers of Entergy Corp. can expect to have electricity again within two weeks, but the lights won’t come on for the entire parish until Sept. 24, according to officials with the utility company that provides power...
Library Chronicles (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
This morning when I saw an Entergy truck driving the wrong way up one-way Carondelet Street, I knew something was up. Sure enough we're finally back up here at Yellow Blogging world headquarters. The load gets backed up pretty quickly when you're without internet access for two whole days. I've got about a hundred emails to read, a news feeds and blogs to check on, pictures to upload, and... something...
WAFB - Local News (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
State police will be closing I-10 in one-hour intervals throughout the afternoon starting at noon so that Entergy crews can repair a main transmission line which crosses over the interstate.
Reuters (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - More than 500,000 customers in Entergy Corp's service area in Louisiana and Arkansas remained without power Friday morning after Hurricane Gustav caused massive damage to the company's transmission system when it hit Louisiana Monday.
Green Mountain Daily - Front Page (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
Per today's Rutland Herald : Neglected maintenance on the brakes on a Vermont Yankee refueling floor crane failed in May as it was holding a cask full of spent nuclear fuel because Entergy Nuclear failed to correct ongoing problems with the crane, a recently released inspection report from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission stated. The crane has accumulated seven problems in more than three years, a...
WAFB - Local News (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
Entergy has provided a list of estimations when most homes in certain areas without power can expect to have it restored. The list will be updated as new information becomes available.
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Entergy today predicted it will have power restored to 90 percent of New Orleans customers within three days, weather permitting, and electricity should be back in service to virtually all homes and businesses in Orleans Parish by Monday night. Parishes where restoration should be 100 percent complete by the end of Sept. 8 Orleans Entergy Corporation is an...
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 04/09/2008
NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Entergy today predicted it will have power restored to 90 percent of New Orleans customers within three days, weather permitting, and electricity should be back in service to virtually all homes and businesses in Orleans Parish by Monday night. Restoration in Algiers and in many of the suburban areas around the city -- including Metairie and Kenner --...
Reuters (Free subscription) | 04/09/2008
HOUSTON (Reuters) - Entergy Corp officials on Thursday said power should be restored in 70 percent of the Louisiana parishes where Entergy supplies power within one week as thousands of workers continue to repair damage from Hurricane Gustav which slammed the state's coast Monday.
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 04/09/2008
The path of Hurricane Gustav offered New Orleans a reprieve, but 80 miles away where utilities say the devastation was the worst they have ever seen, the storm offered nothing but punishment. The region's top power company, Entergy Corp., said the Baton Rouge...
Star Tribune (Free subscription) | 04/09/2008
Oil and natural gas production in the Gulf of Mexico that had been shut down last month before the hurricane resumed in limited volumes, U.S. Minerals Management Service said Wednesday afternoon. And the Louisiana Offshore Oil Port, which handles about 12 percent of the nation's crude imports and is tied by pipeline to about half the nation's refining capacity, does not appear to have been damaged...
Houston Chronicle (Free subscription) | 03/09/2008
Just a few of the major transmission lines down in Louisiana. (Entergy photo). The reports on Gustav-related damage to the energy infrastructure continue to trickle in and they don't seem catastrophic. The Minerals Management Service said that production is...
