The Mardi Gras 2021 blackout was 'avoidable' but big fines f

Entergy New Orleans could have avoided leaving swaths of the city in the dark on the freezing night of Mardi Gras 2021, the City Council's utility advisors said, but the results of their six-month investigation make a big fine unlikely. In a final report on the outage released Monday, the advisors said that preventable computer errors at Entergy knocked out power to four times

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