Sept. 19 Update - Focus on Hurricane Ike Restoration

Hurricane Ike now generally ranks as the third or fourth most destructive hurricane across a range of measures.

At noon today more than 50  percent of our Texas customers have their power back on. After making some repairs at our Lewis Creek Power Plant north of Conroe, we have restored more than 200,000 customers in three days. As our Texas transmission and distribution systems are repaired and restored the pace will quicken. You can see how much has been done by viewing the animated maps on our Web site on www.entergy.com.  Red lines show where distribution lines are not functioning, green shows where they are energized.

More Help Is On the Way

A restoration workforce of 9,500 in Texas is making more of the lines on the maps turn green. The size of our restoration army in Texas will grow as workers from Arkansas and Louisiana redeploy to Texas as restoration is completed in those areas.

Much work remains in Jefferson County, home to Beaumont and Port Arthur. Sections of the City of Orange, Bridge City and the Bolivar Peninsula which are heavily damaged due to flooding and cannot be restored quickly. We will be focusing resources on those areas where restoration can safely be done.

Progress Milestones

Thursday night our transmission group energized several key 230 kV east-west transmission ties. This lets us import more power from the east, greatly strengthens Texas grid integrity, and lets us pick up significant increases in distribution and industrial load.

Refineries, chemical plants and pipelines are coming back on. Some are on clean up power or are in start up mode.

Substation Status

As of 5 a.m. Friday, substations energized include:

•           Beaumont network:  22 out of 39 energized

•           Huntsville network:  11 out of 16 energized

•           Conroe network:  All substations energized

•           New Caney network:  2 out of 4 energized

•           Navasota network:  14 out of 15 energized

•           Cleveland network:  2 out of 3 energized

•           Orange network:  All substations energized

•           Vidor network:  All substations energized

•           Port Arthur network:  8 out of 28 energized

•           Silsbee network:  All substations energized

•           Dayton network:  2 out of 8 energized

•           Winnie network:  None energized at present

•           Woodlands network:  All substations energized

•           Woodville network:  3 out of 4 energized

Safety

We want all of our customers and our workforce to remain safe. All citizens should stay away from downed power lines and flooded areas. Don't walk in standing water or into debris-covered areas. Energized and dangerous power lines may not be visible.