Entergy reported Aug. 31 it has determined two ways to get power to the New Orleans metropolitan region following Hurricane Ida, which took out all transmission lines that feed power to the region. More than 800,000 people in the region were without power on Aug. 31, although the utility had begun restoring it.
New Orleans City Council Member Helena Moreno released Entergy's comments on Facebook, in which the utility said one option would be to restore some of the eight transmission lines that tie New Orleans and its suburbs to the nation’s electric grid. That is the utility’s preferred option.