Category: Storm Hardening & Resilience

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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Distributed Energy Resources are Poised to Revolutionize the Power System by Duncan Campbell

2/18/2021

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Article by Duncan Campbell
Originally published on Scale Microgrid Solutions

Our infrastructure was not designed for the new world we face. In six months we’ve seen two black swan weather events cause an energy crisis. As we reckon with the systems engineering impact of extreme weather, energy resilience will undoubtedly emerge as an essential underpinning of our future grid.

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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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EFNO Presses Council for Entergy Accountability Post-Francine

Distributed Energy Resources are Poised to Revolutionize the Power System by Duncan Campbell

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

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