Neighborhood Power Plan Approved
The New Orleans City Council unanimously approved the $30 million Neighborhood Power Plan, a community-led proposal by Together New Orleans and the Alliance for Affordable Energy to strengthen the city’s power grid through solar-plus-battery systems at homes and community institutions. Funded entirely by Entergy settlement dollars and without raising utility rates, the plan will build one of the most robust distributed energy resource programs in the country on a per-capita basis.
Over the next three years, the program will install backup batteries at approximately 1,500 homes and 150–250 community sites, prioritizing low-to-moderate income households, medically vulnerable residents, and neighborhood resilience hubs. Designed to reduce outages, lower costs, and provide life-saving backup power during extreme weather, the Neighborhood Power Plan marks a historic win for community-driven energy resilience in New Orleans, with installations expected to begin in 2026.