Category: New Orleans City Council - Alliance for Affordable Energy

City of New Orleans to Offer Utility Assistance to Eligible Renters in Danger of Service Disconnection

8/3/2022

Originally Published by The Mayor's Office
July 29, 2022

The Mayor's Office of Housing Policy and Community Development will host a community-based outreach event to provide financial assistance to eligible renters who are at risk of electric or water disconnection.

The event will take place on Wednesday, August 3 and Thursday, August 4 from 9am - 3 pm at the Joe Brown Park Recreational Center located at 5601 Read Blvd. Translators and legal assistance will be available onsite.

Am I eligable?
Residents who have applied for rental assistance through the City of New Orleans but have not received utility assistance can attend the outreach event.

Entergy offered a $588M settlement to end allegations at Grand Gulf. Should Louisiana agree? By Sam Karlin

7/7/2022

Article by Sam Karlin
Originally Published on The Advocate
July 7, 2022

Amid wide-ranging allegations that it soaked ratepayers for inflated costs at its troubled Grand Gulf nuclear power plant, which serves customers in three states, Entergy has struck a settlement with Mississippi, agreeing to refund the state $300 million.

But it’s not yet clear if regulators in Louisiana will opt into the deal, and some officials are skeptical.

The Alliance's take: This plant has been a problem from the jump. Louisianans are owed far more than this pittance and we’re glad to see regulators in the state indicate the same sentiment.

Entergy New Orleans Reliability Judgment

6/14/2022

On Monday, June 13, 2022, Orleans Parish Civil District Court Judge Rachael Johnson issued a ruling from the bench granting Entergy New Orleans’ petition for injunctive relief from a $1M fine that the New Orleans City Council imposed in 2019 as a result of routine reliability issues.

The Council opened docket UD-17-04 in 2017 to investigate Entergy’s decision to defer maintenance and upgrades to its distribution system. The Council, as the utility’s regulator, concluded that Entergy had acted imprudently and penalized the company accordingly. Entergy immediately filed suit for injunctive relief, claiming that the Council had not created reliability standards to which it could be held accountable.

New Orleans City Council Climate Committee votes to ban carbon capture & sequestration facilities and pipelines

6/3/2022

Yesterday the New Orleans City Council Climate Committee voted to ban carbon capture & sequestration facilities and pipelines. The resolution, R-22-219, will now go to the full Council for a vote.

What is carbon capture and sequestration?
“Carbon capture and sequestration” or “CCS” refers to unproven technologies intended to prevent carbon dioxide (CO2) from reaching the atmosphere and contributing to climate change. Plans for CCS involve either collecting CO2 from industrial facilities or removing it from the air. Once collected or removed, the CO2 is either injected underground for disposal or used in the production of more fossil fuels.

Why is The Alliance concerned about CCS?
The coal, oil, and gas industry touts CCS as a “solution” to climate change. But CCS projects have consistently overpromised and underperformed, when they have not failed completely. CCS benefits the petrochemical and pipeline companies by enabling these industries to keep expanding profits while supposedly offsetting their emissions. What's worse? CCS poses significant environmental, health and safety risks to our communities and will have disproportionate affects on Black and Native communities. A report from May 2021 by the White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council concluded that carbon capture storage projects will not benefit communities.

We don't want this expensive, unproven technology in our city. Tell your Councilmember to vote "yes" on Resolution 22-219!

Entergy’s Misrepresented Outage Data

4/24/2019

By Madeline Thomas, AAE Research & Development Intern

Due to reliability issues with Entergy New Orleans' (ENO) power grid, City Council ordered ENO to share bi-monthly reports detailing every outage in Orleans Parish.

Since June 2017, ENO has been providing Customer Outage Data to City Council, Alliance for Affordable Energy (AAE), and other intervening parties in their Reliability docket (UD-17-04).

After comparing the outages with those reported by the news media, thousands of outages have been uncovered that Entergy failed to record.

actors were paid to 'support' Entergy's gas plant proposal

3/11/2018

Andrew Wiseman was paid $120 to act in support of Entergy's proposed peaking gas power plant.

Entergy wants a Blank Check. New Orleans can’t afford to give it to them.

3/7/2018

Charles Rice sent a letter to council members arguing that the idea of the city council conditioning approval of a gas plant with citizen protections is outrageous. As far as we can tell, he wants to make a risky bet with our money, and he is showing his hand.

To defend or not to defend New Orleans...

1/22/2018

The question to New Orleans City Council members:
Protect NOLA and build a resilient future where the power stays on
OR
Force New Orleanians to pay for over-priced, unnecessary, and dangerous technology- every month, for the next 30 years

Get up to Speed on New Orleans’ Integrated Resource Plan

2/15/2013

New Orleans is rapidly moving forward with energy efficiency and preparing to make major decisions on how we meet our energy needs for the next twenty years.

ACEE Provides Guidance on Energy Efficiency in Louisiana

1/30/2013

The American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy ( http://aceee.org/ ) has announced that it will be releasing an in-depth report on opportunities for energy efficiency in the state of Louisiana and suggestions for program design and implimentation.

Policy Update 1/8/2013

1/8/2013

Net-Meter Backlog Leaves Orleans Parish Solar Residents in the Dark.

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