Entergy New Orleans breaks ground on USD 2.05 million DOE-funded grid hardening project

• Entergy unit Entergy New Orleans broke ground on a grid-hardening project backed by a USD 2.05 million US Department of Energy grant.
• Work targets 94 distribution poles in the Leonidas area, covering about 1.6 miles of network, serving more than 1,900 customers.
• The project is projected to avoid USD 7.4 million in outage-related and restoration costs over 50 years.

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