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Entergy Corporation NYSE: ETR is an integrated energy company engaged primarily in electric power productions and retail distribution operations. A member of the Fortune 500, 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 2.6 million utility customers in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas. Entergy has annual revenues of more than $10 billion and approximately 14,500 employees(2006 Annual Report). Corporate headquarters is located in New Orleans, LA. Image File history File links Question_book-3. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... New Orleans is the largest city in the state of Louisiana, United States of America. ... This article is about the U.S. State. ... The energy industry is a generic term for all of the industries involved the production and sale of energy, including fuel extraction, manufacturing fuel and refining, and fuel distribution. ... This article is about a term used in economics. ... The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), nicknamed the Big Board, is a New York City-based stock exchange. ... The Fortune 500 is a ranking of the top 500 United States corporations as measured by gross revenue. ... This article is about the U.S. State. ... This article is about the U.S. State. ... This article is about the U.S. state. ... For other uses, see Texas (disambiguation). ... New Orleans (French: Nouvelle-Orléans) is the largest city in the state of Louisiana, United States of America. ...

Entergy has three main operating segments:

• The U.S. Utility segment provides retail electricity services to approximately 2.6 million customers in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas.

• The Non-Utility Nuclear segment operates a total of ten nuclear power plants in New York (Indian Point Energy Center and FitzPatrick), Massachusetts (Pilgrim), Vermont (Vermont Yankee), Michigan (Palisades Nuclear Station), Arkansas (Arkansas Nuclear One), Louisiana (River Bend and Waterford), and Mississippi (Grand Gulf). Entergy Nuclear also provides support services for the Cooper Nuclear Station through 2014. Entergy is the second largest nuclear power generator in the United States after Exelon Corporation.

On September 22, 2005 it was announced that a new reactor would be built at the Grand Gulf site (see Nuclear Power 2010 Program). The company also announced that it plans to obtain a license for a new reactor at its River Bend site, although the company has not decided whether to build it. The company's nuclear division is headquartered in Jackson, Mississippi. This article is about the U.S. State. ... This article is about the U.S. State. ... This article is about the U.S. state. ... For other uses, see Texas (disambiguation). ... A nuclear power plant (NPP) is a thermal power station in which the heat source is one or more nuclear reactors. ... This article is about the state. ... Indian Point Energy Center (IPEC) is a three-unit nuclear power plant station located in Buchanan, New York just south of Peekskill. ... The James A. FitzPatrick (JAF) nuclear power plant is located near Oswego, New York on the shore of Lake Ontario. ... This article is about the U.S. state. ... Now the only nuclear power plant operating in Massachusetts, Pilgrim Station is located a few miles down the coast from Plymouth Rock. ... This article is about the U.S. state. ... Vermont Yankee is a boiling water reactor (BWR) type nuclear power plant currently owned by Entergy Nuclear. ... This article is about the U.S. State. ... The Palisades nuclear power plant is located on a site of about 490 acres near South Haven, Michigan. ... This article is about the U.S. State. ... Arkansas Nuclear One (ANO) is a two unit pressurized water reactor nuclear power plant located in Russellville, Arkansas. ... River Bend nuclear power station is a General Electric boiling water reactor on a 3,300 acre (13 km²) site in St. ... The Waterford Steam Electric Station, Unit 3, also known as Waterford 3, is a nuclear power plant located on a 3,000-acre (12-km²) up-river from Hahnville, Louisiana, in St. ... Grand Gulf nuclear power station is a General Electric boiling water reactor. ... Nebraska Public Power Districts Cooper Nuclear Station in Brownville, Nebraska Cooper Nuclear Station (CNS) is a boiling water reactor (BWR) type nuclear power plant located on a 1,251 acre (5. ... Exelon Corporation is a giant electricity generating and distributing company headquartered in Chicago. ... is the 265th day of the year (266th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Nuclear Power 2010 Program was unveiled by the U.S. Secretary of the Department of Energy on February 14, 2002 as one means towards addressing the expected need for new power plants. ... : Crossroads of the South : The city of Grace and Benevolence United States Mississippi Hinds, (very small portions in Madison and Rankin) 106. ...

A shareholder resolution filed by one Entergy shareholder for the Company's 2008 annual meeting criticizes executive pay levels at the Company.^[1]

Operations

Entergy serves 2.7 million utility customers across four states- Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Michigan and Texas. Entergy operates over 40 plants using natural, nuclear, coal, oil and hydroelectric power with approximately 30,000 megawatts of electric generating capacity.

Entergy's extensive transmission system carries approximately 23,000 megawatts of power across more than 15,500 miles (24,900 km) of interconnected lines within a 112,000-square-mile (290,000 km²) area.^[2]

Fuel - Diversity and Supply

Gerald Andrus retired in 1974 and Floyd Lewis became the third president of MSU. His major task was to deal with the effects of higher fuel prices and uncertain availability. Consumers were quick to respond and conservation became the order of the day.

The effects of conservation began taking their toll on electricity demand. While the system was building new plants based on previous forecasts, the demand for additional capacity did not materialize. The system canceled plans for additional units and began marketing efficiency to help customers with rising bills. Some plants could not be canceled and the public’s reaction to paying for these additional units embroiled the system in controversy.

In 1980, the system’s first coal fired unit came online. The White Bluff steam electric station, located near Pine Bluff, Ark., made Arkansas Power and Light the first system company to use all five major electricity-generation fuel types: oil, gas, coal, nuclear and hydroelectric.

Five years later, Grand Gulf One entered commercial operation, as did LP&L’s Waterford 3 nuclear plant. While the customers of LP&L were responsible for paying for Waterford 3, precisely who would pay for Grand Gulf One and the two-thirds complete Grand Gulf Two was still in question. The system was in the middle of troubled times.

See also: Effect of Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans

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References

1. ^ Welcome to EntergyPayWatch.org
2. ^ Entergy - Operations Information

See also

• Audubon Nature Institute (based in New Orleans in the US)
• Audubon Zoo (in New Orleans in the US)

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