re: Biggest lesson thus far for the state---we need to decentralize electricity production

I always laugh when people shout for “deregulation” and “competition” whenever there is a storm or major outage. As if that would somehow solve the grid situation.

There would still only be one company that owns the transmission/ distribution infrastructure, genius.

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Why do you want higher rates? Louisiana is one of the lowest cost for electricity in the nation. Shut up and enjoy. Once your fricked up New Orleans powers comes back.

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Lol tell ya what, go do some research on how many times they’ve submitted requests to the public oversight to enable higher rates.

These utility companies don’t GAF about you. The PSC is the only thing saving you from $.24 per kWh

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Deregulate power generation in Louisiana today!!! I want five or six choice of power companies like people have in Texas.

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Except that when you choose a power generation company, you’re just buying numbers in a ledger.

All of the generators in Texas share the same grid. You can’t choose to buy electrons from a specific generator, any more than you could choose to buy water molecules from a specific pump station if they were owned by separate companies. The same tree branch will knock out your power whether you’re buying at a locked-in rate or paying $999/kWh on Griddy.

Texas’ de-regulated market may drive down generation costs and might even help increase the reliability of power generators - although the fiasco earlier this year does call that into question. It does not, however, make much difference to the reliability of the grid as a whole.

Yes, you do wind up with more transmission lines in general if there are more power plants. But that doesn’t mean there will be more feeds into, say, NOLA. Ultimately those types of infrastructure decisions fall on the grid operator.

Only during off peak times on campus like 3 am in the summer. When campus is running full tilt I think they could meet 35-40% of demand. It could be more now if they have upgraded it since I last took a tour of it.

That is exactly why the state should get out of and should prohibit local governments from being involved in licensing power generation plants.

Any one thinks the PSC is really helping the citizens of Louisiana in naive. The PSC thinks they are helping but there is no way they can central plan the electrical needs of Louisiana.

There was a big stink just this past month about a solar field planned in Tangipahoa Parish. I don’t think Entergy should be required to buy that electricity as I understand the politicians are making them do BUT I fully support anybody that wants to build power generation in the state and market it themselves.

Yes delivery lines are going to be monopolies and those monopolies should be customers of the generators not the consumers. Those generators will ensure the infrastructure is well taken care of.

It is really foolish to have transmission lines crossing the lake. The same investment could build several NG plants on the Northshore. Grid connections for New Orleans could be to the west and east as several are already.

Deregulation in Texas over the long run did not raise rates—it lowered them. I know a guy in West Texas that pays nothing for electricity at night but a lot for day time use. It fits his lifestyle. (You could hang meat in his house at night but don’t expect any Ac in the daytime.)

Most may not but the map I posted proves the point that many do.

Those gas turbine plants produce a lot of juice in a little footprint.

Solar panels on every roof and battery packs installed in/around homes.


It will take a while to get there but a lot of these problems will be alleviated by that. Of course it won't be perfect. Panels will get damaged by debris/wind/etc.


But it would be a helluva lot better than the current set up.