re: Entergy seems perfectly fine with removing all ties with New Orleans

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if they are doing storm restoration correctl

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Are you willing to wait for tens of thousands of steel poles to be produced to replace distribution or are you cool with a new wood pole and having your power back on in a few days?

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PSC should be out of the process entirely the audit should be bid, completed, and reviewed by someone other than the PSC then the same document should be released publicly and to the PSC at the same time.

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It essentially is. The audit is put out to bid. A firm does the audit. Lawyers for Entergy gather all the facts and include this in their testimony filed with the PSC - which is publicly available. You are describing what happens.

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PSC should be out of the process entirely the audit should be bid, completed, and reviewed by someone other than the PSC then the same document should be released publicly and to the PSC at the same time.

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The purpose of the PSC is to audit and regulate. It's their role. They use a third party to facilitate most of the work. But you are asking for redundant regulations that make no sense if the PSC is doing it's job... literally, it's main job. I believe the legislature audits them, too.

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The city council seems to think so.

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It's been well established the city council is a bunch of idiots. They aren't posting on this thread.

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if the PSC is doing it's job

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Are they?

They are certainly on the payroll of Cleco, Entergy, etc.

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If there was some other strategic reason to not run the plant... then don't tell people you are going to build a plant for a certain strategic reason and then abandon that reasoning.

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Disasters dictate decisions, not pre conceived notions of how things should work. Being flexible is a good thing. I don't know what Entergy said before Ida or right after about needing a feeder. It may have bee that the black start apparatus was damaged. Either way, having the plant there as a switchyard was extremely helpful in getting power back sooner.

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They are certainly on the payroll of Cleco, Entergy, etc.

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And these new regulators you are conjuring up will be completely void of corruption? Why wouldn't they have the same issues as the PSC? Do we keep regulating and auditing everyone until that's where all the overhead goes?

You have regulators for a million different reasons already. And you want to add more... idk why. You think that Entergy doesn't do a good job of restoring power? Because that's all they get reimbursed for on your bill. Money they already spent and they have receipts and WOs to prove it. If you want a new infrastructure, that's an entirely different animal that the PCS has rarely if at all approved when Cleco and Entergy (and at one point NRG) have requested it. People don't want to pay for metal poles.

I’m sorry the city is in dire financial situation so until further notice there will be mandatory blackouts each and every night .

New Orleans can’t keep water out of the city, pick up trash, lower crime, but we expect them to keep the lights on if they run the electric and gas utilities.

What a shite show votes have consequences

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A category 4 hit and the majority of customers in NOLA and Jefferson parish were back online in 7 days or less.

What the frick are we talking about here.

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Yeah, I remember not having power for 2 weeks after Andrew and nearly that long after Gustav. Given the circumstances I didn’t think a week was too bad

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Here's the way this works. A storm destroys the infrastructure. Entergy foots the bill to replace it. Entergy reports all charges to the PSC. The PSC audits the charges to determine how much of it is prudent. Entergy is allowed to recoup their prudent expenses. Happens on every major storm. Every single one.

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Does anyone think the City of New Orleans has the ability to raise 9 figures immediately to front costs of rebuilding damaged infrastructure, then bonding out those incurred costs at a competitive rate to be repaid over 30+ years? Someone else said the city would be out of power till Christmas after a hurricane, that's a generous estimate and the City has no credit to get anyone to help them restore like a private utility.

The SWB doesn't even collect it's delinquent accounts today, relies on 100+ year old equipment that is incompatible with modern electricity standards, the City is effectively bankrupt on a daily basis already, has no viable business credit rating and buys no insurance for its normal operations & assets. Yet somehow they'll be able to raise billions to buy the infrastructure (at junk bond rates), then provide electricity consistently and respond to storms in a reasonable time frame.

Based on their inability to provide water & sewerage (a relatively simple task versus generating and distribution of electricity), the city's body count of injured/killed city employees and burnt down homes would be pretty high.