Letter to The Advocate: Asking the Right Questions

By Jesse George, AAE New Orleans Policy Director

On January 5, The Advocate published a staff editorial on the reliability – or, rather, unreliability – of our state’s electrical grid. While the piece argued its strawman positions vehemently, it certainly was not arguing against any position held by serious advocates of electric utility reform.

The notion that clean energy and resilience advocates want to “eliminate the conventional power grid” is utterly fantastical. We have argued the exact opposite: that Entergy should be investing in the transmission and distribution systems, and that it should stop the stonewalling tactics it has used to constrain transmission of cheap renewable energy to our state, rather than investing in costly projects such as the New Orleans Power Station, which do not perform as promised and do not increase resilience in the wake of tropical storm systems.

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