Entergy Louisiana’s comprehensive grid resilience plan
Entergy Louisiana has begun phase one of its comprehensive grid resilience plan for customers to experience lesser amount of power outages after severe weather strikes.
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USA, Louisiana: Entergy Louisiana has begun phase one of its comprehensive grid resilience plan for customers to experience lesser amount of power outages after severe weather strikes. The plan will fortify the state’s electric infrastructure, enhancing the power grid and community resilience while safeguarding its economic well-being over the next five years.
The phase includes 2100 projects targeting 69000 distribution and transmission structures. Hardening measures such as the replacement of electric equipment such as poles, guy wires, anchors, and power lines to meet the latest wind loading design standards will be implemented.
In the Lake Charles area, Entergy Louisiana plans to invest around $107 million over three years to harden the grid, including upgrading 4275 distribution poles to withstand winds up to 125 mph and 115 transmission structures to endure winds up to 150 mph, covering a total of 148 miles of transmission and distribution lines. The first project, under progress in the Oak Park area, comprises of hardening about 315 distribution poles, covering over five miles of power lines.
The company employed a data-driven approach to evaluate potential storm scenarios to develop the grid resilience plan and identify priority projects. The benefits of the plan could be about $1.2 billion in avoided future storm restoration costs, improvements in everyday electric service reliability and customer savings related to reduced post-storm outages. The plan will also help shorten evacuations and reduce time away from home and work by mitigating restoration costs and outages from future extreme weather events.
Source: T&D World
