Electric Utility Operations

Entergy Sends 650 Workers to Florida to Help With Restoration

Sept. 11, 2017

Entergy is providing mutual assistance to Florida Power & Light by sending crews from three different states to help with the restoration.

Amy Fischbach

When disaster strikes, utilities often lend a helping hand. Case in point: more than 650 Entergy and contract personnel from Louisiana, Mississippi, and Arkansas traveled to Florida to provide mutual assistance to Florida Power & Light (FPL).

As Entergy crews leave from both New Orleans and Slidell, Louisiana, Sunday morning to help FPL, Ryan Price, an operations coordinator with Entergy New Orleans, talks about the restoration in the video below.

B-roll of Entergy crews from Louisiana heading to Florida to assist in Hurricane Irma restoration from Entergy Corp. on Vimeo.

About the Author

Amy Fischbach | Amy Fischbach, EUO Contributing Editor

Amy Fischbach is the contributing editor for the Electric Utility Operations section of Transmission and Distribution World. She worked for Prism Business Media (now Penton) for eight years, most recently as the managing editor of Club Industry's Fitness Business Pro magazine. She is now working as a freelance writer and editor for B2B magazines. Amy earned her bachelor's and master's degrees in journalism from Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kan.She serves as the national vice president of the American Society of Business Publication Editors. She can be reached at [email protected].