As severe weather becomes more frequent and destructive, Entergy Texas is making major investments to strengthen its power infrastructure and improve reliability for Southeast Texas communities. Serving more than 524,000 customers, the utility is responding to recent disasters like Hurricane Beryl and flooding that exposed vulnerabilities in its grid.

In recent years, Texas has experienced an increasing number of high-impact storms that led to widespread outages. This has highlighted the fragility of aging transmission lines and substations. To address these risks, Entergy Texas launched the Texas Future Ready Resiliency Plan, a multi-year strategy focused on hardening infrastructure, speeding up outage recovery, and managing restoration costs.
Key initiatives include:
- $137 million in grid upgrades, such as burying lines and replacing outdated poles with stronger materials.
- A $110 million project on the Bolivar Peninsula, where composite poles and underground circuits helped maintain service during Hurricane Beryl.
- $54 million in federal funding to reinforce power lines in flood-prone neighborhoods like Port Arthur.
Beyond infrastructure, Entergy Texas is working to improve emergency preparedness. They run storm drills, increased vegetation management, and updated outage tracking tools with multilingual support. These efforts are designed to reduce outage durations by an estimated 1 billion minutes over 50 years and limit economic disruption during major events.
While the scale of investment is significant, Entergy Texas is seeking federal and state support to avoid steep customer rate increases. The company is also exploring long-term financing tools to spread costs over time.
With weather extremes becoming the norm, Entergy Texas’s approach offers a model for how utilities can adapt their systems for a more climate-resilient future.