Sunday night a line of severe thunderstorms produced high winds and large hail, causing severe damage to the electrical grid in Acadia, Calcasieu, Cameron and Jefferson Davis parishes.
Entergy crews expect to have power restored tonight to about 95 percent of the customers affected by the Sunday night thunderstorms that caused significant damage to Entergy's southwest Louisiana electrical grid.
Entergy today received the Edison Electric Institute's Emergency Recovery Award to recognize the company's exceptional power restoration efforts during five different storm events over the course of the past year.
Entergy Louisiana, LLC has signed a five-year agreement to provide an additional 60 megawatts of electricity to power CF Industries' expanding nitrogen facility in Donaldsonville, one of many projects that are part of the industrial renaissance underway in Louisiana.
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