Some customers in New Orleans East get power restored after Hurricane Ida Wednesday morning
Source: NOLA.com
BY JEFF ADELSON
The first lights came back on in the New Orleans area since Hurricane Ida early Wednesday morning, with Entergy announcing it had restored power to a limited area in New Orleans East.
The company was able to bring those customers back using electricity from the New Orleans Power Station, a natural gas plant in New Orleans East, according to a press release from the utility.
"While initial service can be provided to some customers, the full restoration will still take time given the significant damage across the region," according to the press release. "Crews will have to methodically bring back additional transmission lines over time to provide other pathways for power to enter the region, helping to maintain stability of the system throughout the complete restoration process."
More than 200,000 homes and businesses get their power from Entergy New Orleans. After the first power was restored Wednesday morning, Entergy's outage tracker reported about 173,000 were still without power. It was not immediately clear whether that figure was accurate since there have been errors on Entergy's outage map since Ida.
Entergy New Orleans announced it had restored power to the first customers in the New Orleans area Wednesday morning, days after Hurricane Ida knocked out all eight transmission lines that bring electricity into the region.
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Haggard Celine
(16,820 posts)Hope they're able to get some more every day. It looked like they were saying it would be weeks before anybody got power, but it looks like now they're being more optimistic. The people of New Orleans need some optimism right now, along with the necessities that I hope are being shipped in to all the different neighborhoods. Keep it up!
zuul
(14,616 posts)Just heard via email from our building manager about 2 hours ago.