Hurricane Ida turns spotlight on Louisiana power grid issues

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The dismal authorities of powerfulness successful Hurricane Ida’s aftermath is simply a distressingly acquainted script for Entergy Corp. Louisiana’s largest electrical inferior has grappled with different wide outages aft galore erstwhile hurricanes. Other Louisiana and Gulf Coast utilities person faced akin disasters, sometimes needing to rebuild full networks. If anything, powerfulness restoration has gotten faster successful caller decades. Still, critics question the enormity of the outage from Hurricane Ida and wherefore it is inactive truthful wide astir a week aft the tempest slammed into the authorities with 150 mph winds.