Category: Entergy New Orleans

EFNO Presses Council for Entergy Accountability Post-Francine

10/16/2024

The Energy Future New Orleans coalition is calling for greater transparency and accountability from Entergy New Orleans (ENO) following the utility’s response to Hurricane Francine. In a letter addressed to the New Orleans City Council and sent on October 10, EFNO expressed concerns that “ENO still has not provided an estimate of storm recovery costs from Francine” and the impact those costs could have on residents, who are already struggling with historically high bills.

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Community Organizations Call on New Orleans City Council to Investigate Entergy New Orleans Spending

2/9/2024

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Energy Future New Orleans (EFNO) joins other organizations in calling for the New Orleans City Council to investigate utility spending related to advertising, public relations, consulting, lobbying and commissioned research for “Operation Gridiron.

Leaders of the Alliance for Affordable Energy, HousingNOLA, the Greater New Orleans Housing Alliance (GNOHA), Power Coalition for Equity and Justice (PCEJ), the Deep South Center for Environmental Justice (DSCEJ), the Bunny Friend Neighborhood Association, the New Orleans Chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA-NO), 350 New Orleans, the Climate Reality Project, Step Up Louisiana, the Sierra Club Delta Chapter, the Greater New Orleans Interfaith Climate Coalition, and Healthy Gulf have submitted a letter requesting that the New Orleans City Council open an investigation into spending by Entergy New Orleans related to advertising, public relations, consulting, lobbying and commissioned research.

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A look back at Entergy's promises to sell a gas plant to New Orleans

9/5/2021

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Hurricane Ida left hundreds of thousands in southeast Louisiana without power despite years of promises by Entergy that our communities would not have a repeat of power grid failures if they could just build that plant in New Orleans East. We have already learned that the promise of power coming back without outside transmission was false.

excerpt from the City Council's approval of NOPS

Check out these clips from the City Council's July 26th, 2017 UCTTC meeting at which Entergy attorney Brian Guillot and former president & CEO Charles Rice sell the City Council on NOPS and its importance in an emergency situation, touting its ability to "keep the lights on."

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Briefing Statement: Energy Regulation in New Orleans

7/14/2021

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The New Orleans City Council has an extraordinary power -- the regulation of Entergy as an investor-owned utility company. Though the Council has a designated Utility, Cable, Telecommunications and Technology Committee (“UCTTC”) consisting of five members, major regulatory decisions are brought to the full Council for voting. Thus, all New Orleans City Council members are both legislators and regulators of a major electric and gas utility.

For years, the Energy Future New Orleans Coalition has advocated for strong regulatory oversight of Entergy in order to lower costs to ratepayers, increase the reliability of electric service in New Orleans, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions that are the cause of the changing climate threatening the future of our city. We have prepared this simple informational sheet to highlight some of the regulatory issues currently pending before the Council:

Briefing Statement: Energy Regulation

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What’s up with New Orleans Climate Action and Our Renewable Portfolio Standard?

12/17/2020

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Months ago the New Orleans City Council unanimously approved a resolution committing the City to 100% Net-Zero emissions by 2040, followed by actual zero emissions by 2050. Then the Council sent stakeholders back to the table to work out the details.

Now the Council is expected to take up a final renewable resolution in January 2021. So, what does the rule on the Council’s desks look like, and does it meet those top four goals laid out by the Council earlier this year? Here is the breakdown.

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Groups call out Entergy CEO for gaslighting New Orleans

10/7/2019

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Leo Denault is under fire for "sustainability" summit used to promote expensive, hazardous nuclear energy and polluting gas plant over resident-controlled solar power.

Monday, October 7, 2019 @ 12:30pm
At the Civic Theater, 510 O'Keefe Ave, New Orleans

WHO: Community leaders working for an affordable, renewable, healthy energy future in New Orleans. Residents taking a stand against Entergy's ongoing attempts raise New Orleans' electricity bills and push through an unnecessary, costly and polluting gas plant. Solar energy workers helping residents to generate their own electricity and weatherize homes.

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Council utility advisors recommend mandating net-zero carbon emissions by 2050

9/4/2019

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Article by Michael Isaac Stein
Originally published on The Lens

In a report issued this week, the New Orleans City Council’s utility advisors are recommending that the city require electric and gas utility Entergy New Orleans to attain net-zero carbon emissions by the middle of the century — a goal consistent with steps deemed necessary by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to avoid the catastrophic effects of global warming above 1.5 degrees celsius.

The report cited “the unique vulnerability of New Orleans to the devastating consequences of climate change and the urgent need for decarbonization to prevent dangerous levels of global warming.”

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This Crazy Trick Could Help New Orleans Utility Customers Save Money

6/5/2019

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Article by Joseph Daniel, Senior Energy Analyst
Originally published on Union of Concerned Scientists

Over the past year or so, a lot of states with renewable portfolio standards (RPS) have opted to double down on that policy mechanism to set a path to 100% clean electricity. However, most jurisdictions in the deep south have been reticent to pass such policies. That might change later this year, as the City of New Orleans considers passing an RPS. And that’s the crazy trick that could save customers money. Passing an RPS.

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The People's Power Hour Radio Show: Renewable Portfolio Standards

9/18/2018

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Host Logan Burke discusses Renewable Portfolio Standards for New Orleans with Andrew 'Andy' Kowalczyk from 350 New Orleans, Chair of Sustainable Labor Group; Citizen's Climate Lobby; and Volunteer Lobbyist.

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EFNO Presses Council for Entergy Accountability Post-Francine

Community Organizations Call on New Orleans City Council to Investigate Entergy New Orleans Spending

A look back at Entergy's promises to sell a gas plant to New Orleans

Briefing Statement: Energy Regulation in New Orleans

What’s up with New Orleans Climate Action and Our Renewable Portfolio Standard?

Groups call out Entergy CEO for gaslighting New Orleans

Council utility advisors recommend mandating net-zero carbon emissions by 2050

This Crazy Trick Could Help New Orleans Utility Customers Save Money

The People's Power Hour Radio Show: Renewable Portfolio Standards

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