New Orleans Schools Go Solar With Entergy, Nike, Winrock International, U.S. Green Building Council Partnership, City of New Orleans

New Orleans Schools Go Solar With Entergy, Nike, Winrock International, U.S.
Green Building Council Partnership, City of New Orleans

NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Work on an advanced,
hurricane-resistant solar roof wrapped up this week at Warren Easton Senior
High School, the first project of a partnership between Entergy Corporation,
Nike Corporation, Winrock International, the Louisiana Chapter of the U.S.
Green Building Council and the city of New Orleans.

The New Orleans public school is now equipped with a 28-kilowatt solar array
that will produce approximately 37,000 kilowatt-hours of electricity annually
- enough to power three typical residential homes.

The partners committed almost $1.7 million to the project with $1.5 million
coming from Entergy Corp. The installation at Warren Easton, which becomes the
largest solar array in the city, cost approximately $500,000, including
equipment, materials and installation.

"Entergy is committed to helping rebuild our community in a way that is
environmentally sustainable," said Rod West, president and CEO of Entergy New
Orleans, Inc. "We are proud to be the lead sponsor of the New Orleans Solar
Schools Initiative, which supports the benefits of clean, alternative energy
and energy conservation, and even more importantly teaches those benefits to
our children - our future leaders."

The project includes an instructional component that will help educate both
students and teachers about conservation and renewable energy. Students will
use the solar equipment as a first-hand learning tool to research and report
on how energy conservation can integrate with solar power.

The New Orleans Solar School Initiative originated with Entergy's purchase of
carbon offsets - registered on Winrock International's American Carbon
Registry - from Nike in 2006. The transaction was part of Entergy's long-range
plan to stabilize CO2 emissions 20 percent year 2000 levels through 2010. Nike
donated $150,000 of the proceeds from the sale of the carbon offsets, and
Entergy committed up to $1.5 million - part of which is tied to an agreement
with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission - to install solar systems at
New Orleans public schools.

"The New Orleans Solar Schools Initiative is an important component of the
efforts of the city of New Orleans to reach the objectives outlined in the
'Solar America City' program sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy," said
Mayor C. Ray Nagin. "The use of carbon offsets to fund this project also
realizes the goals set forth in the city's carbon footprint analysis, which is
also done in collaboration with Entergy. We look forward to working together
to further advance our city's economic future while simultaneously reducing
our carbon footprint."

"In this project, Nike and Entergy found a way to use the market to reduce
emissions and help students and teachers learn the skills future energy
managers will need," said John Kadyszewski, director of the American Carbon
Registry at Winrock International.

The project is being coordinated by Winrock, a nonprofit organization based in
Little Rock, Ark. The project contractor was Advanced Roofing, Inc. Other
project partners include the Greater New Orleans Foundation, the U.S.
Department of Energy and Think Energy.

Entergy's Past Solar Projects:
Solar Installations
Dryades YMCA Project
Environmental Performance

About Entergy:
www.entergy.com
About Nike:
www.nikebiz.com
About Winrock International:
www.winrock.org
About the Louisiana Chapter of U.S. Green Building Council:
www.usgbc-louisiana.org
About the City of New Orleans
www.cityofno.com

SOURCE Entergy Corporation

Michael Burns of Entergy Corporation, +1-504-576-4238, mburns@entergy.com