Entergy Louisiana President and CEO Phillip May says the lights are back on for more of the utility’s customers. He says power has now been restored to more than 90-percent of those who can take it in the greater New Orleans and Baton Rouge areas. He says last night that crews “restored 82,000 customers ahead of our goal of 75,000.”
May says so far 682-thousand customers have had their power restored post-Ida of 902-thousand who were left in the dark. The bad news is that more than 90-percent of Entergy’s customers in Lafourche, St. Charles and Terrebonne parishes still have no power.
May says that Entergy and crews from across the nation will not be resting on their successes to date in getting the power back on for nearly 700-thousand customers over the past 10 days. He says the crews now begin “honing in on the 26-thousand resources into those hardest-hit areas that were directly in the eyewall and wind-field of Hurricane Ida.”
Some 26-thousand linemen who converged on the state to get the power restored after Ida hit are drawing praise from Entergy New Orleans CEO Deanna Rodriquez terming them “superstars.”
Crews have restored 98-percent of the power in Orleans Parish as of today. Customers in heavily damaged areas that include Venetian Isle, Irish Bayou and the Lake Catherine areas that can accept power could have it restored by this Sunday.
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