Entergy Declares Dividend

01/29/2010

NEW ORLEANS – The Board of Directors of Entergy Corporation (NYSE: ETR) has declared a quarterly dividend of 75 cents per common share. The payment date is March 1, 2010, to stockholders of record on Feb. 11, 2010.

Entergy Corporation is an integrated energy company engaged primarily in electric power production and retail distribution operations. Entergy owns and operates power plants with approximately 30,000 megawatts of electric generating capacity, and it is the second-largest nuclear generator in the United States. Entergy delivers electricity to 2.7 million utility customers in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas. Entergy has annual revenues of more than $13 billion and approximately 14,700 employees.

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