Entergy spends far more on power plants than improving the grid by WWLTV

This WWL-TV news segment analyzes how Entergy New Orleans spend four times as much generating their own electricity as they do operating, maintaining and fortifying the transmission grid to deliver power to customers.

This emphasis on self-generation is designed to boost Entergy’s profits and contrasts with other utilities that have increasingly collaborated to strengthen regional grids and take advantage of different energy sources.