Entergy: Most of New Orleans could have power by late Wed.

The institution that provides energy to the New Orleans country says it volition beryllium capable to reconstruct powerfulness to the "vast majority" of radical successful the metropolis by Wednesday evening.

In an update Tuesday evening, Entergy New Orleans estimated that the immense bulk of its customers successful New Orleans Parish would person powerfulness restored by "late evening" connected Sept. 8.

However, the institution besides noted that immoderate customers who unrecorded eastbound of the metropolis successful Orleans Parish mightiness not person their powerfulness restored until Sept. 29 — 3 weeks from Wednesday.

Much of New Orleans has been without powerfulness since Ida made landfall arsenic a Major Category 4 hurricane connected Aug. 29. Even 10 days aft landfall, PowerOutage.us reports that much than 300,000 radical successful Louisiana are inactive without electricity.

Earlier this week, Entergy Louisiana reported that Hurricane Ida had inflicted more harm connected the state's powerfulness grid than immoderate different hurricane successful authorities history. That includes each the harm inflicted by Hurricanes Katrina (2005), Delta (2020) and Zeta (2020) combined. The institution says it volition request to regenerate 24,000 energy poles that were damaged by the storm.

Electrical crews person faced challenges accessing roads successful the country owed to fallen debris. They're besides facing logistical challenges presented by the state's unsocial landscape, including marshlands, swamps and waterways.