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October 24, 2024
Recruiting a company like Amazon Web Services to Mississippi not only creates job opportunities for residents, but long-term benefits for Entergy Mississippi customers as well. When Entergy Mississippi recruits industrial customers to the service area, existing customers benefit because those companies share in the cost of the power generation and …
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September 6, 2024
Powering communities through economic development continues to be one of Entergy’s proudest contributions to the communities it serves. After nearly six years of exploration for a transformational project, Entergy Mississippi played a key role in recruiting Amazon Web Services’ historic $10 billion project – the single largest capital investment in Mississippi’s …
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March 11, 2019
Patty Riddlebarger, Vice President of Corporate Social Responsibility, Entergy Corporation
When DXC Technology announced in 2017 that it would create 2,000 jobs in global IT in New Orleans, U.S. News & World Report featured the relocation deal in “New Orleans: Silicon Valley of the South?”.
The publicity for DXC’s relocation highlighted many benefits of our business-friendly region. And for those familiar …
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March 13, 2018
Chris Murphy, Sr. Project Manager, Business & Economic Development, Entergy Arkansas
For years, the Arkansas aerospace sector was a well-kept secret, but not anymore. More than 180 aerospace/aviation companies — including well-known industry names like Aerojet Rocketdyne, General Dynamics, Lockheed Martin, Pratt & Whitney, and Raytheon Missile Systems — have set up shop in the state. New companies continue to arrive …
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February 28, 2018
Bob Ricci, Senior Manager of Industrial Accounts, Entergy Louisiana, LLC
The 200-mile stretch along I-10 from New Orleans to Lake Charles is home to approximately 100 chemical and refining facilities, and more than 500 contractors and service companies. This business ecosystem, worth billions of dollars, thrives on people chemistry that’s strong in this pro-business community.
Louisiana’s Established Chemical Industry
In the …
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February 22, 2018
In Entergy’s four-state service area, job growth in the metal fabrication industry cluster is projected to outpace the U.S. by 3.5 percent. For Texas alone, that projection is even higher at 4.3 percent.
What makes Texas such a sought-after location for the metal fabrication industry? For starters, a large pool of …
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January 16, 2018
Originally posted on CardRates.com
Energy providers across the country work around the clock to keep their customers’ lights on and still put financial resources aside to make the communities they serve a better place.
Entergy regularly gives back …
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June 21, 2017
Rhonda Dishner, Economic Development Alliance
Originally posted on The Pine Bluff Commercial
Economic development professionals from around the world were in Little Rock recently for a meeting sponsored by the International Economic Development Council (IEDC).
IEDC’s Economic Future Forum, held Sunday through Tuesday, June 4-6, at the Statehouse Convention Center, was one of the first (if …
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