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Entergy continues to return customers to service, prepares for additional winter weather.

Entergy’s Louisiana storm crews are continuing to assess damage and restore power where it is safe to do so after a winter storm brought extremely cold temperatures, freezing rain and large amounts of ice accumulations to the state Sunday and throughout Monday.

Entergy Louisiana has started power outages for its customers across the southwestern portion of its service territory.

BEAUMONT, Texas - Entergy Texas has started additional power outages for its customers across the Eastern portion of its Texas service territory, which includes Jefferson, Orange, Hardin and Liberty counties. The company is taking this action as directed by our reliability coordinator, the Midcontinent Independent System Operator, as a last resort and in order to prevent a more extensive, prolonged power outage that could severely affect the reliability of the power grid.

Action requested due to demand potentially exceeding available generation

Entergy Texas’ western region is experiencing a record all-time load.

Due to bitterly cold temperatures and the winter storm, the demand for electricity has reached an all-time high.

Action Taken as Directed by MISO Due to Increased Demand, Loss of Generation