Sunday, March 1, 2009

Entergy - Vicksburg's source for electricity

From Entergy's website:

"Entergy Corporation is an integrated energy company engaged primarily in electric power production and retail distribution operations. Entergy owns and operates power plants with approximately 30,000 megawatts of electric generating capacity, and it is the second-largest nuclear generator in the United States. Entergy delivers electricity to 2.7 million utility customers in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas. Entergy has annual revenues of more than $13 billion and approximately 14,300 employees."

Entergy owns and operates two large power plants near Vicksburg, the Baxter Wilson plant in Warren County, and the Grand Gulf Nuclear Station in Claiborne County, each with a capacity of approximately 1,300 megawatts.

Though Entergy has reliably supplied electricity to Vicksburg and Warren County for years, Mississippi State Attorney General Jim Hood has filed suit against the company, claiming that Entergy has been overcharging Mississippi customers. A similar suit in Louisiana forced Entergy to return some seventy million dollars to customers in that state.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Good for him! II have paid some very large electirc bills. Wouod be very nive to get a little of it back