JACKSON, Miss., Aug 31, 2005 /PRNewswire-FirstCall

 

Entergy (NYSE: ETR) has made some progress assessing damaged areas and has restored power to nearly 156,000 customers in Louisiana and Mississippi in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, after reaching a system outage peak record of 1.1 million.

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 $10 billion and approximately 14,000 employees.

SOURCE Entergy Corporation

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