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Entergy requests to add nearly 225 MW of solar power in Louisiana

The two projects would both be online by early 2026.
Entergy requests to add nearly 225 MW of solar power in Louisiana

Entergy is requesting to add two solar projects totaling 225 MW in Louisiana.

According to a proposal to the Louisiana Public Service Commission, the utility would enter into a 20-year purchase power agreement with NextEra Energy subsidiary Coastal Prairie Solar, LLC, for energy produced by a 175 MW solar project to be built in Iberville Parish.

Also under the proposal, Entergy would be allowed to build and operate what would become the Sterlington Solar Facility, a 49 MW project in Ouachita Parish.

If approved, construction could begin in the spring of 2024 with the Iberville facility fully operational in late 2025. The Sterlington Solar Facility would then follow in early 2026. 

Entergy currently has approximately 280 MW of renewable resources in its Louisiana mix. This includes the 50 MW Capital Region Solar facility, which began delivering power to the grid in October 2020.

The company said that Entergy Louisiana has “several thousand megawatts of renewable capacity in various stages of planning and procurement that will be brought to the Commission for approval in the near future.”

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