When I ran the Alliance for Affordable Energy, I felt it was critical to hold Louisiana’s electric utilities accountable to the ratepayers, and that hasn’t changed. The opinion piece, Entergy’s quiet power moves, written by Executive Director of the Alliance for Affordable Energy, and published by the Lens, gives readers an incomplete or misconstrued understanding of how our local electric…

Recently, the Alliance for Affordable Energy – an organization I used to run – sent a letter, also signed by several respected progressive organizations,* to the City Council asking them to open a docket to investigate “utility spending related to advertising, public relations, consulting, lobbying and commissioned research for ‘Operation Gridiron.’” (Operation Gridiron is Entergy New Orleans’ moniker for the…