Adding to the uncertainty is the recovery time for major power failures across the state., a major Louisiana power supplier, said all eight transmission lines feeding power into New Orleans were down Sunday, causing generation to come offline and leaving the city in the dark.for more than one million customers in Louisiana Monday morning, according to data from poweroutage.us.
Entergy shut down a nuclear plant 25 miles west of New Orleans on the Mississippi River ahead of the storm. It lost off-site power on Sunday and was relying on emergency diesel generators, according to a regulatory notice. The Plantation Pipeline, which also moves gasoline from the region to the East Coast, was operating on Sunday. Excess gasoline supplies in Europe eventually could be shipped to the U.S., according toOffshore oil companies in the U.S. waters of the Gulf of Mexico, which account for about 17% of U.S.
I’m guessing is bad…ida
Refineries have back up power .