Wednesday, June 21, 2023

Live at 6

 State Representative De'Keither Stamps will host Entergy Mississippi CEO Haley Fisackerly on his radio show on 90.1 FM at 6 PM.  You can watch it live on Facebook.

25 comments:

Anonymous said...

PSC needs to shut up!!! I’m thinking Entergy has done as good as can be expected.

Anonymous said...

People that live in Jackson are the whiniest ever. Entergy is doing everything it can and Jacksonians aren’t the only people without power. The entergy dude doesn’t need to waste his time with these people, he needs to be doing his job not politicking.

Anonymous said...

What the hell does Bailey (PSC) think should/could have been done in this situation? Sounds like nothing more than Bailey politicing - just as Stamps is doing with this 'interview'.

What Entergy (and other power providers in other parts of the state) faced was an unprecedented situation that had little or no advance warning. Unlike a hurricane, where there is an anticipated landfall on or about a specific date, the fact that a good thunderstorm was coming did not lead anyone to believe that there would be not one, not two but multiple nights of 80 mph or more straight line winds spread over much of the state.

Entergy had to movilize after the first night's storm (while I imagine crews were still working in the delta on the earlier tornado devastation) and face downed trees, power lines and poles. Followed by more the next night and hell - more the following day. Unlike a good prepared for hurricane, there were not platoons of crews and equipment lined up waiting to assist in this case because there was no anticipation of the damage. And couldn't have been.

Did Bailey anticipate this devestation? For that matter, did Stamps anticipate it? The answer to both is "NO".

Many of the folks that are bitching that their power has been out for a few days sound like crybabies -- "I haven't seen an Entergy truck anywhere" speaks to their thought that themselves, and their neighborhood, were the only people affected. I have heard this from people throughout Jackson --- where probably over half of the city lost power ---- that refuse to recognize that there are 20 plus other counties that have power outages (as well as the rural areas of Hinds).

Entergy --- and the local associations that have also faced this last week -- has done a damn good job of trying to restore everything as quickly as humanly possible. I agree with 7:22 - PSC and PSC candidates need to shut up!!

Anonymous said...

I’m sure JJ readers will be calling in.

BTW, Stamps is not a bad guy.

And isn’t he running against Brent Bailey?

Oh, wait. This could get to be fun. BB was the commish being a dick about Entergy and now the Entergy Miss Prez is going on Stamps show.

Stamps almost beat BB four years ago.


Anonymous said...

7:22 wasn’t out of power for five 95 heat index days.

Jack Winstead said...

In my opinion Energy and other power companies have done the best they can following the recent storms . Some politicians are trying to get attention for themselves which is a mistake. We need to praise these people rather than being critical. Thanks

Anonymous said...

I was shocked to hear today that Entergy has no line repair men to fix the downed lines.

Everyone is a contractor.

Looks like the contractors went to the surrounding states.

Anonymous said...

@7:22
Well
You’re not aware of much or you have terrible expectations. You obviously have set the bar as low as it can possibly go

Anonymous said...

7:22 PM It's election time. They can't help themselves as they don't want to lose their cushy jobs which include a nice taxpayer provided vehicle.

People Power said...

Entergy has cut employees, failed to maintain the grid (see Hurricane damage that shut power down for New Orleans), overcharged customers and put linemen's lives in unnecessary danger by their mismanagement and corner cutting. Get rid of monopoly utilities and let the competition in.

Anonymous said...

Entergy owes the community answers. There may be a good reason that thousands were without power during a heatwave, but they barely communicated with us.

People Power said...

Mr Stamps is already cozying up to those he would regulate. Of course that may be why the regulated utilities have given him so much money since he decided to run for PSC. This is money he would be prohibited from taking if he were elected. Staring off with corruption. PSC Commissioners were sent to federal prison for taking money form some of these same entities. We don't need any more of that.

Anonymous said...

Day 7 with no power off of Dry Grove Road Raymond. Most people in our area keep generators gassed up and ready. Power is out pretty often and we have to have them to keep anything in our freezers. Linemen are great but more year around maintenance is needed.

Anonymous said...

If city of Jxn responsible for getting trees off of power lines before lift truck crews can repair the poles and lines, mayor has culpability in retarding progress.

Anonymous said...

~ did not lead anyone to believe that there would be not one, not two but multiple nights of 80 mph or more straight line winds spread over much of the state.

Total BS.

Anonymous said...

Why doesn’t Brent Bailey have a radio show?

Anonymous said...

"What the hell does Bailey (PSC) think should/could have been done in this situation?"

Uhhh, how about replace aging power poles. There was no need for the power pole in my neighbor's yard to have splintered at the top during this storm.

How about maintaining their right of ways by trimming trees/limbs from endangering their equipment, causing costly repairs?

How about having adequate staff to handle storm responses? Why have they reduced staff over the last decade? They made over 1 billion last year. 1,000 more lineman making 50-60k each year is ~$60 million. Damn so instead of a billion they would have made 940 million last year. Oh the horror!!! Especially when granted government relief from competition.

Anonymous said...

Why not move out of Jackson? There are counties outside of Hinds with clean water, jobs, housing and less power outages. Jackson will not get better until the people demand better. Wonder what the mayor has in store for his next term?

Anonymous said...

I'll pass.
BB has my vote.
Stamps has no clue what the PSC duties are, nor could he perform them.

Anonymous said...

Typical democratic response. " Never let a good crisis go to waste." And by the way BB is a democrat.

Anonymous said...

We are in Day 7 with no electricity in NE Jackson in LOHO.

We know Entergy has a tough job and it is time consuming.

However when this is over, a top to bottom evaluation should
Be done on the way Entergy operates. Are they being
Proactive as to preventing these crisis situations etc

Anonymous said...

@9:08 AM has a point. Many of the wood power poles in NE Jackson have not be replaced in decades. Complicating the problem is that these poles run along property lines in back yards and often are very hard to access. In general wood power poles have a service life of 30-35 years which means that any pole in the ground before 1990 probably should have been replaced by now. My NEJax neighborhood was built in the 70s and that pole out back in my neighbor's yard that serves four houses is the original from back then. That's 50+ years. Getting all the equipment and manpower into backyards to replace poles is no small non-disruptive undertaking. I'm convinced that somewhere inside of Entergy they've done a ROI analysis and concluded that the overall expense to proactively replace these poles as part of some sort of plan or program far exceeds the costs to replace individual poles as needed after bad weather events. That is life under a regulated monopoly where the cost of lost customer goodwill doesn't really factor into the equations.

Anonymous said...

Generac

Anonymous said...

The poles in my NE Jackson neighborhood are marked 1950’s. When one of these rotted poles goes down we go three days without power. There is no maintenance whatsoever by Entergy in my neighborhood.. They only act in crisis mode. Sick to death of this monopoly which makes billions off their customers. There was no preparation for this storm by Entergy. They have access to weather information many days out. The fact that there was no way to get information from Entergy concerning restoration was a dereliction of duty to their customers.

Anonymous said...

"There are counties outside of Hinds with clean water, jobs, housing and less power outages."

Unless I am mistaken that sentence applies to every county in Mississippi except Hinds County.


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