Entergy New Orleans, a subsidiary of

Entergy Entergy Corporation is a Fortune 500 integrated energy company engaged in electric power production and retail distribution operations in the Deep South of the United States. Entergy is headquartered in New Orleans, Louisiana, and generates and ...

, is an electric and natural gas utility based in

New Orleans, Louisiana New Orleans (commonly known as NOLA or The Big Easy among other nicknames) is a Consolidated city-county, consolidated city-parish located along the Mississippi River in the U.S. state of Louisiana. With a population of 383,997 at the 2020 ...

. It was a mass transit provider under the former name New Orleans Public Service Incorporated (NOPSI).

History

The various

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lines of New Orleans were consolidated under NOPSI's control in 1922. Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, NOPSI converted all the original streetcar lines in New Orleans, except for the

St. Charles Streetcar Line The St. Charles Streetcar Line is a historic streetcar line in New Orleans, Louisiana. Running since 1835, it is the oldest continuously operating streetcar line in the world. It is operated by the New Orleans Regional Transit Authority (RTA) ...

, to bus service. It was headquartered in a building built in 1929, which later became the NOPSI New Orleans hotel. In 1983, control of the system's mass transit was transferred to a public agency, the

New Orleans Regional Transit Authority The New Orleans Regional Transit Authority (RTA or NORTA) is a public transportation agency based in New Orleans. The agency was established by the Louisiana State Legislature in 1979, and has operated bus and historic streetcar service throug ...

. NOPSI became Entergy New Orleans, a subsidiary of

, in April 1996.

Facilities

* New Orleans Power Station

References

External links

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