Your bill tells a different story
Entergy has built its business on the Walmart model—low prices, heavy consumption. Your bill is the receipt.
Louisiana has cheap electricity, the same way Baton Rouge has a traffic problem—technically accurate, profoundly understated.
Why it matters: The gap between Louisiana's per-kilowatt-hour rate and what residents actually pay is large, growing and about to get a lot more complicated.
Talk is cheap: Louisiana's residential rate runs 13 cents per kilowatt-hour—about 36% below the national average. Entergy and the PSC will tell you that every chance they get. What they mention less: Louisiana leads the nation in residential electricity consumption, and monthly bills already run near the national average. The cheap rate is doing all the work to keep us there.
- The grid runs almost entirely on natural gas. When LNG exports surged 18% in 2025—Europe and Asia buying—Entergy passed every cent downstream, helping push July bills 8% above the prior year.
Brace yourself: A federal energy report projects utility rate increase requests in 2026 will be the highest in decades. Louisiana's own trajectory has raised base rates by roughly 40% since 2018, with another 40% projected by 2030, according to a Pelican Institute analysis.
- Seventeen capital projects are pending before state regulators—grid hardening, hurricane recovery and new industrial transmission lines. Every ratepayer absorbs them.
The bottom line: Louisiana's low rate is treading water against the highest residential consumption in the country. The levee math was already thin. Now we're building the world's largest AI data center on top of it.