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Entergy sues the City Council over lower profit rate and $1 million fine by Michael Isaac Stein

12/11/2019

Article by Michael Isaac Stein
Originally published by The Lens
December 10, 2019

Entergy New Orleans CEO David Ellis sits at a City Council utility committee meeting in October.

Entergy New Orleans, the city’s electric and gas utility, filed two lawsuits on Friday over recent decisions by the New Orleans City Council, which serves as the company’s regulator.

One of the suits challenges the council’s November decision to lower the profit rate the company can collect from New Orleans customers. The other challenges a $1 million fine the council levied on the company for its “inaction and omissions in mitigating” the thousands of power outages the city experiences every year.

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Electric Companies Like Entergy Are Using Affiliate Transactions to Block Renewable Energy, Here’s How by Joseph Daniel

12/11/2019

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Article by Joseph Daniel, Senior Energy Analyst
Originally published by the Union of Concerned Scientists
December 11, 2019

Despite the environmental, economic, and reliability benefits of switching to a renewables future, New Orleans, Louisiana is being blocked by local utility monopoly, Entergy.

NOLA is ready to embrace an all-renewables future. Why? Well, UCS research shows that making the switch would probably save them money.

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City Council Teams Up with Entergy in Court Battle Involving the Paid Actors Scandal

12/3/2019

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The Right of Residents to Participate in Council Meetings Under Attack, Groups Say

A battle is brewing over a court judgment that threw out the City Council’s approval of the Entergy gas plant for violation of Louisiana Open Meetings Law. The violation occurred at two controversial Council meetings that involve Entergy’s deceptive use of paid actors to fill up a meeting room and speak from scripts as though they were concerned residents. At these meetings, numerous New Orleans residents were denied the opportunity to comment on Entergy’s application for a new gas plant in New Orleans East.

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Entergy sues the City Council over lower profit rate and $1 million fine by Michael Isaac Stein

Electric Companies Like Entergy Are Using Affiliate Transactions to Block Renewable Energy, Here’s How by Joseph Daniel

City Council Teams Up with Entergy in Court Battle Involving the Paid Actors Scandal

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