Entergy New Orleans, LLC, LA
Power reliability at Entergy New Orleans, LLC
1.8 separate outages last year, 3.5 hours without power in total - that is Entergy New Orleans, LLC's record for Louisiana, running ahead of the national median. That is 22% less outage time than the Louisiana state average of 4.4 hours a year.
What a typical outage at Entergy New Orleans, LLC looks like
A single outage here averages 1.9 hours. That is squarely in battery-power-station range; a fuel generator is overkill for most of these. Why outage length, not count, picks the backup: how often vs how long.
The generator question for Entergy New Orleans, LLC
Serving 211,670 customers here, Entergy New Orleans, LLC customers lose more power than most of the country sees, so a generator is worth getting rather than an overreaction.
Where this number comes from
Entergy New Orleans, LLC filed these numbers itself, as an investor-owned utility, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire Louisiana territory, serving 211,670 customers here, not a single street or outage. Want the Louisiana average instead of just this one utility? Louisiana's statewide record is here. How the verdict bands are set is in the methodology.