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Another Power Giant’s CEO Is Retiring: Entergy’s Leo Denault

August 17, 2022 admin Business, CEO, entergy, Leadership, Management, mangament, news, trends

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2022 21:54:39 +0000

Entergy Corp.’s chairman and CEO Leo P. Denault will retire in 2023, ending a decade-long role as the head of the New Orleans–headquartered power generating giant. Denault will be succeeded by Andrew “Drew” Marsh, Entergy’s current executive vice president and chief financial officer. Denault, 62, was appointed Entergy’s chairman and CEO in 2013, taking over […]

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Palisades Nuclear Power Plant Closes After 50 Years of Operation, Employees Leave with Pride

May 28, 2022 admin Business, decommissioning, entergy, full coverage, Michigan, news, Nuclear, nuclear power, palisades, reactor, retirement

Credit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Thu, 26 May 2022 17:34:39 +0000

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After more than 50 years of operation, the Palisades nuclear power plant was taken offline for the final time on May 20. The station was scheduled to be permanently shut down on May 31, but plant operators “made the conservative decision to shut down the plant early due to the performance of a control rod […]

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Entergy Louisiana Customers To Pay $3.2 Billion For Storm Repairs While CEO Gets $4 Million Raise

February 26, 2022 admin entergy, entergy louisiana, grid, Louisiana, utilities

Credit to Author: Johnna Crider| Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2022 04:40:21 +0000

Entergy Louisiana will start billing customers statewide $3.2 billion for repairs after five hurricanes in 2020 and 2021. The utility company doesn’t have to pay a dime toward those repairs and its CEO even gets a $4 million pay raise. Meanwhile, all of Entergy’s customers in the state — even those who didn’t have any […]

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Takeaways from the Clean Fuels Summit in New Orleans

October 25, 2019 admin argonne national lab, autonomous vehicles, batteries, biofuels, byd, calstart, cars, chargepoint, clean cities, clean cities coalition, clean fuels summit, clean transport, Coal, commuter krewe, electric cars, Electric vehicles, Energy Storage, entergy, ev charging, ev charging stations, events, fhwa corridor, Fossil Fuels, green economy, green jobs, grid, high speed rail, hybrid electric cars, hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles, innovative rail technologies, lithium-ion batteries, louisiana clean fuels, louisiana department of environmental quality, mass transit / public transit, Media, microgrids, natural gas, New Orleans, nola motorsports, north american council on freight efficiency, Oil, phev, policy & politics, roush, roush cleantech, southeast louisiana clean fuel partnership, swepco, trains / rail, university of louisiana

Credit to Author: Johnna Crider| Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2019 12:10:22 +0000

Louisiana Clean Fuels and Clean Cities Coalition recently teamed up to bring the Clean Fuels Summit to New Orleans. This was an event that landed me in the Harrah’s Casino Hotel by the Riverwalk, where I could hear the blasts from the river cruises nearby. On the evening before the summit, LCF held an awards ceremony where Executive Director Ann Vail honored several partners and businesses that help to advance the nation’s environmental, economic, and energy security by supporting local actions to diversify transportation fuel options

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Power Plant Emissions Down Substantially in U.S. Since 1990

June 25, 2019 admin carbon, ceres, climate change, CO2, Coal, emissions, entergy, Environmental, Exelon, Gas, Hydro, m.j. bradley & associates, news, NOx, nrdc, Nuclear, Renewables, SO2, Solar, Wind

Credit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2019 23:21:45 +0000

Power plant SO2 and NOx emissions have decreased 92% and 84%, respectively, since Congress passed major amendments to the Clean Air Act in 1990. Meanwhile, mercury air emissions from power plants have decreased 90% since 2000, as federal limits on mercury and other hazardous air pollutants from coal-fired power plants went into effect in 2015. […]

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Hydro Plant Saved by Commission-Approved Agreement

November 7, 2018 admin cleco, entergy, Hydro, Legal & Regulatory, Lousiana, Markets, news, Renewables, sabine pass authorities, swepco, toledo bend

Entergy Louisiana, Cleco Power, and Southwestern Electric Power Co. (SWEPCO) have secured a power sales agreement (PSA) to buy power generated by the 80-MW Toledo Bend hydroelectric plant—but only for five years. The Louisiana Public Service Commission (LPSC) on October 26 approved the PSA, providing new life, albeit briefly, for the 1963-licensed Toledo Bend project, […]

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