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26
Clear vision, clear progress.
2015 Integrated Report
Utility
All classes of customers – residential, commercial, industrial and governmental –
continue to benefit from our membership in MISO. We also continue to focus
on gaining efficiencies through generation and transmission projects that
reduce production costs, investments to improve productivity and predictability
and distribution investments that lower cost and usage. For example, we
installed telemetry on our vehicle fleet to optimize fleet size and deployment.
By measuring, tracking and reporting vehicle data, we have saved more than
400,000 gallons of fuel and $400,000 in maintenance costs.
Economic growth generates additional demand for power, which helps us maintain
favorable rates. We enable economic growth by maintaining low rates and reliable
service, investing in our local communities and meeting regularly with local and state leaders and with
existing and prospective customers. We continued our extensive outreach efforts and made upgrades to
our site selection websites to help businesses considering an expansion or relocation to the region.
We offer energy efficiency programs as well as tools to help our customers reduce their energy bills. The
objectives of Entergy’s demand-side management and energy efficiency programs for residential and
commercial customers are to reduce the overall cost of meeting energy resource needs; provide customers
with attractive options to reduce their energy consumption; educate customers on the value of energy
efficiency; and support low-income and sustainability initiatives. For industrial customers, objectives
of Entergy’s programs include reducing energy-related costs and maximizing energy reliability.
Across our utilities, we have invested more than $345 million from
2002 to 2015 to deliver approximately 428 MW of load reduction
and approximately 1.36 million MWh of cumulative energy savings.
Currently we offer more than 30 energy efficiency and demand-side
management programs across our four utility states. Benefits of these
programs are reduced energy costs, deferred generation investment
and reduced environmental footprint. We offer a variety of tools to all
classes of customers based on their needs. For residential customers,
these include resources to encourage energy efficiency including DIY
videos, online advisors and home energy calculators that offer online
energy audits. We promote these tools through a monthly customer
e-newsletter. A web page, myResources, serves as a starting point for
customers to research and identify actions to reduce consumption and
lower their utility bills. Through myResources, customers can access
myAdvisor, myHome, myPaymentOptions and myAccount Online. In
2015, there were nearly 160,000 visits to Entergy’s website to perform
online energy audits and access energy efficiency information.
SOCIAL
Seventy percent of companies considering relocation to Louisiana cite education and workforce
readiness as a top concern. Entergy launched a $5 million, five-year initiative to address workforce
development issues in our region.
Currently we offer more than
30 energy efficiency and
demand-side management
programs across our four
utility states. Benefits of these
programs are reduced energy
costs, deferred generation
investment and reduced
environmental footprint.
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