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Do all Entergy customers lose electricity often or is that just a local thing?
Posted on 4/29/24 at 6:59 am
Posted on 4/29/24 at 6:59 am
There is an area in my parish where one side of the street is Entergy, and the other is a local co-op.
The Entergy side of the street has service disruptions constantly, and they take a very long to restore power. The other side rarely loses electricity and unless there is a hurricane, it gets restore very quickly.
Is this a statewide trend or does Entergy only suck locally?
The Entergy side of the street has service disruptions constantly, and they take a very long to restore power. The other side rarely loses electricity and unless there is a hurricane, it gets restore very quickly.
Is this a statewide trend or does Entergy only suck locally?
Posted on 4/29/24 at 7:01 am to member12
Whenever they need to squeeze the numbers, little outage here or there never hurt
Posted on 4/29/24 at 7:03 am to member12
From everything I've heard and experienced, Entergy just sucks.
Posted on 4/29/24 at 7:06 am to member12
Well Dumco ain’t much better
Posted on 4/29/24 at 7:09 am to Tshiz
Entergy is pretty bad at providing electricity.
They are very good at charging fees and lobbying for public funding to pay for maintenance to their grid. . And they haven’t moved their HQ to Texas yet. So there is that at least.
They are very good at charging fees and lobbying for public funding to pay for maintenance to their grid. . And they haven’t moved their HQ to Texas yet. So there is that at least.
This post was edited on 4/29/24 at 7:13 am
Posted on 4/29/24 at 7:11 am to goofball
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And they haven’t moved to Texas yet. So there is that at least.
In Texas and I have Entergy or am I missing something here?
Posted on 4/29/24 at 7:14 am to member12
We've been in our home for nearly a decade now and have Entergy. I could probably count on a single hand the amount of times we've lost power (the entire area has buried lines).
Posted on 4/29/24 at 7:18 am to jdd48
Entergy definitely has some infrastructure problems in my area. But to their credit, we do get some weather pretty often.
Posted on 4/29/24 at 7:31 am to dewster
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Entergy definitely has some infrastructure problems in my area. But to their credit, we do get some weather pretty often.
Yea but weather is one thing. It's the many inexplicable outages and blinks in the middle of a sunny day that get me. And of course they always claim ignorance when asked about it.
Posted on 4/29/24 at 8:08 am to member12
We have LUS (Lafayette Utilities System) and it frustratingly never goes out. We bought a fancy whole home generator 2 years ago, and I have been waiting for the electricity to go out so we can use it.
Posted on 4/29/24 at 8:45 am to member12
We have Entergy and lose power often. Sometimes even on clear, sunny days.
Posted on 4/29/24 at 8:53 am to bad93ex
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And they haven’t moved to Texas yet. So there is that at least.
In Texas and I have Entergy or am I missing something here?
No, you have options though.
The folks in Louisiana live and die with one energy company. Their elected officials in each parish are wonderful.
Posted on 4/29/24 at 8:56 am to TigerBlood17
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We have LUS (Lafayette Utilities System) and it frustratingly never goes out. We bought a fancy whole home generator 2 years ago, and I have been waiting for the electricity to go out so we can use it.
I swear our electricity used to go out all the time before we got a whole house generator. Like you, ours has really only used for its regular tests.
Posted on 4/29/24 at 8:56 am to member12
Depends on whether transmission lines are buried, TBH.
We get enough rain and wind during storms that I got used to one of my previous houses losing power intermittently because a wet branch would cause a short circuit. And that gets worse if a line servicing large areas gets knocked out by a downed tree or a dumbass driver.
We get enough rain and wind during storms that I got used to one of my previous houses losing power intermittently because a wet branch would cause a short circuit. And that gets worse if a line servicing large areas gets knocked out by a downed tree or a dumbass driver.
Posted on 4/29/24 at 8:58 am to Bubb
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We have Entergy and lose power often. Sometimes even on clear, sunny days.
IIRC, there was a time in the past 10 years where the entire grid in the northern part of EBR went down for hours because some small animal became a crispy critter at a substation and caused a cascade failure.
Posted on 4/29/24 at 1:08 pm to jizzle6609
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No, you have options though.
I have no other option but it’s a unique circumstance
Posted on 4/29/24 at 1:34 pm to Bard
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(the entire area has buried lines).
Yes, that helps but at some point those underground lines come out of the ground and tie into the existing, old, often outdated, dilapidated overhead grid system that is subject to wind damage.
Posted on 4/29/24 at 1:38 pm to member12
power at my house was out all day Saturday. A tree fell across the road and knocked out the lines. shite happens
Posted on 4/29/24 at 1:39 pm to member12
Entergy just sucks arse and there is 0 we can do about it as taxpaying consumers other than taking it in the arse or moving somewhere else. We love our monopolies don't we folks?
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