With utilities in the Southern US recovering from Hurricane Laura, which hit Louisiana six weeks ago, the impacts of Hurricane Delta could linger for weeks after making landfall Oct. 9 with expectations of widespread power outages, decreased demand, prices and damaged infrastructure. Receive daily email alerts, subscriber notes & personalize your experience. Register Now Power outages began rising during the afternoon of Oct. 9 as the storm’s outer bands started hitting the Louisiana Coast. Entergy Louisiana, which serves over one million customers, had over 7,000 customers without power around 3 pm eastern time, according to poweroutage.us. The outages were due to the storm, spokesman Jerry Nappi confirmed in an email. Beauregard Electric Cooperative had over 8,000 customers without power around that time, according to poweroutage.us. Entergy had assembled a 7,000-person storm team […]

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