Originally Posted On The Times-Picayune
Entergy Louisiana has received approval to build a new $869 million power plant in St. Charles Parish, part of a broader effort to strengthen power generation and transmission in a region that has seen a boom in industrial growth. The plant is expected to start …
Originally Posted on 4-traders
Entergy hosted a “Power Lunch” last week at Copiah-Lincoln’s Simpson County Center. The purpose was to bring business leaders in the community together to discuss ways the community can work with Entergy in the economic development arena as well as in developments within the Entergy company itself.
Entergy is working with communities …
Originally posted on The Daily Leader
Entergy Mississippi recently announced the completion of its Brookhaven solar station, which will be used to harness the sun’s energy to help fuel Mississippi’s power grid.
Entergy received permission from the Mississippi Public Service Commission to install three 500,000-watt solar panel farms in the state …
Originally Posted on Mississippi Business Journal
A scaled-back version of workforce training legislation Gov. Phil Bryant last year dubbed “The Two Cars and a Boat” bill won final legislative approval Tuesday.
House passage of Senate Bill 2808 put the measure on track for a signature from a governor who last year …
Originally Posted on DeSoto Times-Tribune
Marco Illig, Executive Vice President of Operations for FEUER Powertrain North America, Inc., in Robinsonville, calls DeSoto County home, making the short commute to the continental headquarters for his global company that cranks out more than three million crank shafts a year in his native Germany …
Companies relocating or enlarging their businesses face many important decisions in the search for a new site, including critical assessments where an experienced utility business development team can help. Every project is different, just as every site is different, but these 10 factors are a constant in the hunt for …
Finding a development-ready industrial site that meets a company’s criteria and its in-service date goals is one of the biggest challenges when companies contact economic development agencies for assistance in relocating their businesses.
Companies are looking for locations with proximity to attractive conditions — highways, railroads, ports, for example — and …
In my 25 years of experience in business and economic development, I have asked company representatives and site selection consultants many times “What can we do better to help you?” Their answers have helped Entergy become a leader in economic development because we’ve developed innovative tools in response to their …
