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Borde named president and CEO of Entergy Texas. Oct 05, 2026, 06:45 ET NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 5, 2026 /PRNewswire/ - David Borde has been named president and CEO of Entergy Texas, succeeding Eliecer Viamontes, who has departed the company for other opportunities. The change is effective Oct. 5. "Eli has been a tremendous leader and a great colleague, and his many years of experience will serve him well in this next chapter," said Drew Marsh, chair and CEO of Entergy. Borde currently serves as vice president, utility strategy and regulatory initiatives, where he has supported Entergy's operating companies in executing the company's overall customer-centric strategy by supporting regulatory and tariff filings and providing ongoing strategic and regulatory counsel. His regulatory focus has allowed the organization to keep pace with evolving customer needs and expectations. Borde joined Entergy in 2009 and served as director of corporate development based in Texas. He later served as Entergy's vice president of investor relations and in various leadership roles, including serving within the company's utility finance business partner organization. "David has extensive experience in utility strategy, regulatory affairs and utility finance, along with his deep understanding of our business and customers," said Drew Marsh, chair and CEO of Entergy. "He is a thoughtful and proven leader, and he will build on the strong foundation in Texas while advancing our commitment to providing safe, reliable and affordable energy to the communities we serve." Prior to joining Entergy, Borde worked in the investment banking division of Citigroup USA and as a lawyer at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett. He earned a Juris Doctor degree from Duke University's School of Law in 2001 and holds a degree in business from the University of Paris. About Entergy Entergy (NYSE: ETR) generates, transmits and distributes electricity to power life for more than 3 million customers through our operating companies in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas. We're focused on keeping costs for our customers as low as possible while providing reliable energy that our communities count on. We're also investing in growth for the future with a more resilient, cleaner energy system that includes modern natural gas, nuclear and renewable energy generation. As a nationally recognized leader in sustainability and corporate citizenship, we deliver more than $100 million in economic benefits each year to the communities we serve through philanthropy, volunteerism and advocacy. Entergy is a Fortune 500 company headquartered in New Orleans, Louisiana, and has approximately 12,000 employees. Learn more at Entergy.com and connect with @Entergy on social media. SOURCE Entergy Corporation

Letter to the Editor: rising energy costs and what the State Legislature can do. Dear Editor, Energy costs are top of mind for most of River Journal Online right now, for good reason. The prices River Journal Online is paying to power its homes and cars have skyrocketed lately. I write to share more about how my colleagues and I in the State Legislature are working to lower energy costs, and to correct some misconceptions about the reasons for high prices. Its biggest problem is its reliance on outdated, high-cost forms of energy. Even without subsidies, renewables - solar, wind, geothermal, and hydropower - are currently less expensive to produce than oil, natural gas and nuclear. Transitioning to renewables will also help protect River Journal Online from price spikes like those caused by the war in Iran. Households and communities can also generate renewable energy, especially solar, ourselves; over time, this can reduce the leverage that investor-owned power generators have to raise prices. This year in its state budget, River Journal Online passed the Accelerate Solar for Affordable Energy Act along with $200 million for NY-Sun to help more New Yorkers benefit from solar. River Journal Online also passed the Solar Up Now New York (SUNNY) Act which, if signed, will enable more New Yorkers to produce energy at home using low-cost plug-in solar panels. I also sponsor several bills aimed at siting more solar over parking lots (A.10028) and along highways (bill number forthcoming), as well as accelerating the deployment of community solar projects (A.9087). I co-sponsor many other pieces of legislation aimed at getting more renewable energy into the grid. During this year's budget, River Journal Online also passed reforms which will pressure utilities to focus on affordability. Utilities must now return excess profits to ratepayers and are prohibited from passing certain costs on to River Journal Online, such as lobbying costs and political donations. Going forward, utilities requesting rate increases will be required to present a "budget-constrained" option with increases limited to the current rate of inflation. The State will also convene a new Residential Affordability Through Energy Savings (RATES) Commission to study rising utility costs and propose solutions. Other reforms River Journal Online passed this year target the Public Service Commission (PSC) itself. The PSC is now required to develop an energy affordability index to track the financial impact of energy rates on residential customers. The PSC can also install an independent affordability monitor to study and recommend changes at utility companies whose average customer spends more than 3% of their income on electricity service (or 6% on combined gas and electricity service). Moreover, with four of the current commissioners' terms ending in February 2027, the Governor has an opportunity to appoint new commissioners with backgrounds in consumer protection. I will be advocating for this and encourage the public to join me. Now let's address some myths. Contrary to what some say on social media, the CLCPA and NYSERDA have a minor impact on your energy costs. The CLCPA has not been fully implemented, and was even rolled back during this year's budget negotiations. NYSERDA is funded in part by the very small System Benefit Charge listed on your bill. People fearmongering about "green energy mandates" hiking its bills are not reading the numbers. The idea that restarting Indian Point would lower bills relies on nostalgia, not fact. Here's the truth: Entergy closed Indian Point because it was not able to compete on price with other sources of electricity. Con Ed declined to renew its last Indian Point contract for this reason. Nuclear remains the most expensive form of energy; reopening this plant would not lower costs but would increase safety risks for its area. As an intervenor in the most recent Con Ed rate cases, I learned a lot about what is really driving high energy costs. I'm working hard to bring them down. You can learn more about this work and find resources to help with your bills by visiting my web page on this issue: https://bit.ly/LoweringUtilityCosts. Sincerely, Assemblymember Dana Levenberg

People tell Entergy they don't want Meta power line on their property. Alexandria Town Talk Updated Oct. 2, 2026, 2:49 p.m. CT * Louisiana residents are opposing Entergy's plan to build a transmission line for a new Meta data center. * The proposed line would run through private properties, family farms, and a protected wetland area. * A group called the Louisiana Landowners Coalition has petitioned against the project, urging the use of existing utility corridors. * Entergy has stated that while the start and end points are fixed, the route is not yet finalized and expropriation remains a possibility. JENA - Rapides High School teacher Danielle LeBouef said her family used every last cent they had to buy a rural property so her three children could grow up safe. Now Entergy wants to run a transmission line through her front yard to power the $50 billion Meta data center being built in Richland Parish, and she has questions. She's not alone, either. On Thursday night, about 100 people gathered at the Jena Community Center to ask questions about the project. It was hosted by the Louisiana Landowners Coalition, a group that started after founder Dustin McAnn spotted surveyors on his property and later learned about the proposed line's route. The Meta project, named Hyperion, would be the company's largest data center. As described on its website, the parent company of Facebook states it "will be part of our global infrastructure that brings Meta technologies and programs to life, making the future of human connection possible. "This data center will play a vital role in accelerating our AI progress, delivering 5 gigawatts of compute capacity to house Hyperion, our largest multi-gigawatt AI cluster." The transmission line, known as the West Fork Creek to Boeuf 500kV transmission project, would run through Avoyelles, Rapides, LaSalle, Caldwell and Richland parishes. According to information distributed by Entergy at the meeting, supporting studies, surveys and soil borings began this year, as well as easement acquisitions. Entergy's plans call for construction to begin in 2028 and for the line to go into service in late 2031. The coalition had copies of its Aug. 27 petition to the Louisiana Public Service Commission available at the meeting. It registers the group's formal opposition to the project, asking the body to require Entergy to find a route "causing the least possible damage to private property." It also asks that Entergy be required to use existing utility corridors and commercial timberland "rather than the condemnation of working family farms and residential properties," it reads. The commission is set to vote on the project in December. Nobody who spoke Thursday night voiced support for the project. Most of those who did speak were against it, and some of them would be directly impacted by it. LeBouef is one of those people. She described an area her family used to live in as "not so safe," so they decided to buy a rural home to provide her kids with "the security of isolation, basically. "Less than a year later, Entergy is knocking on our door to take our property," she told a panel that included Entergy's Larry Hand, vice president of regulatory and public affairs. She said she's read about how the New Orleans-based power company uses pesticides to control growth around its equipment. "As of now, when I stand on my front porch, I see no one. I have a tree line, and it is beautiful," she said. "And that is why we bought that. We put every dime we had into that land." She expressed concerns for her sheep, Scary Larry, with the use of pesticides and because of Entergy crews that might come onto her property. LeBouef said she feels powerless, "which is ironic because you're the power company." She says she lives less than a mile from a non-residential area and asked if the company had thought about using that land instead. Hand recommended she talk to the company officials at the meeting and said the company should consider all other options. He told LeBouef he wasn't sure about the use of pesticides, but she replied that the information is found on Entergy's website. "And that's not something that I want in my pasture or around my animals," she told Hand. Attorney Julie Wilkerson spoke on behalf of her clients, the Jena Band of Choctaw Indians. While the tribe has not taken a position on the transmission line, it might cross some of their land. Wilkerson said she was there to represent them and make sure Entergy consults them before any decisions are made concerning the sovereign nation. Another landowner, Jimmy Nugent, asked if Entergy would look at different routes or if it's "locked in" on the proposed route. He owns 160 acres covered with hardwood timber, and the proposed route runs straight through it, cutting it in half. He said it's hard to place a value on that, and he knows the company wouldn't pay what he would want for it. Hand said Nugent is one of the roughly 30% of landowners who have not signed agreements with Entergy for the project. But he said the company is required to consider alternate routes. "The only thing that is kinda set in stone is, electrically speaking, we need a substation at the beginning and a substation at the end to connect to other lines," Hand said. Hand said while the start and finish points are locked in, the route in between is not. He acknowledged that the best route is not through a landowner's property who does not want it, so the company needs to work with landowners to find a solution. However, expropriation is not off the table. It was on the minds of several speakers, and Entergy had a sign at the meeting detailing how that could happen. It stated that initial offer letters would be reaching landowners in November, followed by negotiations through June 2027. Final offer letters should go out between December and September 2027. But if the company does not reach agreements with landowners, it could begin expropriation proceedings between December and June 2028, according to its information. State Rep. Mike Johnson said he first learned of the project from a constituent in his district who had found out about it because surveyors came to his property. "That's not the way it ought to be," he said. "And I've expressed that to Entergy and been very clear about that." Johnson said he's contacted every landowner he believes is impacted by the project in his District 27 in Rapides Parish. He said they'll eventually see if the project is of public use and necessary, as Louisiana law says is needed for expropriation to happen. But he said the law also makes it clear that the inconvenience to landowners must be considered, too. Johnson said he "was trying to make it very clear" to Entergy that lawmakers are looking for alternative routes and ones that "don't impose on those people who don't want it on their land." He said he has seen indications from Entergy that "they are legitimately trying to do that. And I will continue to argue for those folks that just don't want it on their land. I am very concerned about Catahoula Lake." Johnson added that he is "very concerned about Catahoula Lake," which is owned by the state and is the largest freshwater body in Louisiana. It is in both LaSalle and Rapides parishes. Entergy's transmission line would go right through the lake, as proposed now, and its defenders are asking people to contact the Louisiana Public Service Commission to ask for a route that would go around the lake instead. The current route would go through about 76 acres on the lake, or about 2.5 miles. A flyer at Thursday's meeting listed why the lake is so important. It's been classified as a Ramsar Wetland of International Importance because of how much waterfowl and other birds, like bald eagles, depend on it and because of ancient bald cypress trees. The lake is the only Louisiana site on the list. The route as planned now would run through two bands of these trees, some of which are about 2,000 years old. The area also is rich in archeological treasures, according to the flyer, which states spear points dating back 10,000 years have been found at the lake.