An Entergy New Orleans crew working to restore power after a transformer blew in Mid-City, on Jan 21, 2025.
An Entergy New Orleans crew working to restore power after a transformer blew in Mid-City, on Jan 21, 2025.
Patchy power outages persisted across the New Orleans metro area on Wednesday as the city faced another day of freezing temperatures under a blanket of snow from the previous day’s blizzard.
Entergy, the main supplier to the city and state, was reporting around 400 outages in Orleans Parish early Wednesday, out of a total of just over 7,200 for the state. Most of Entergy Louisiana’s outages were in the west of the state, with a big outage around the town of Abbeville in Vermillion Parish.
Other providers were reporting about the same total statewide, for a total outage count of just over 15,000 customers in Louisiana.
Entergy continued to warn customers of “dangerous” wintery conditions. The causes of outages were varied but mostly equipment failures like exploding transformers that couldn’t stand up to the weather. One in Mid-City Tuesday evening which had knocked out power for about a dozen houses took Entergy about three hours to fix and bring back online.
Entergy warned customers on Wednesday that “restoration times may be slowed due to road conditions.”
There was a large outage affecting about 200 customers in the Seventh Ward, around North Galvez and Allen Street. Entergy didn’t immediately have a cause or a timeline for a fix.
Entergy said Monday before the rare winter storm arrived that it had 1,600 workers on standby to assist with outages statewide and would suspend all disconnects through Sunday.
Here’s where power is out elsewhere:
Cleco said it had about 700 customers without power on the north shore, while Washington-St. Tammany Electric Cooperative had another 100 or so customers out early Wednesday.
Entergy reported about 240 outages scattered throughout Jefferson Parish.
This is a developing story. Check back for updates.
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