Watershed Gets $1,875 for Fans

Little Rock, Ark. – Qualifying Entergy Arkansas, Inc. customers having trouble paying their electric bill can get some relief, thanks to the generosity of Entergy Arkansas customers, employees, retirees and shareholders. Other customers can beat the heat with box fans donated by Entergy Arkansas.

Today the Power to Care fund received a check for $156,403 from Entergy Arkansas in the lobby of the Entergy Arkansas offices at 9th and Louisiana in downtown Little Rock.

Power to Care is a program created 27 years ago under the name Project Deserve. The name was changed last year to Power to Care. The fund exists as a safety net for elderly and handicapped customers during times of financial crisis. The money is applied toward a balance owed on an Entergy Arkansas account. For information on where one may apply for Power to Care assistance, contact Rosalie Tripp at Southern Good Faith Fund at 870-535-6233 ext. 12. The fund is administered by the Southern Good Faith Fund, a non-profit subsidiary of Southern Bancshares.

In 2008 Power to Care helped 2,627 customers out of a bind with funds totaling $455,000. In the last three years, more than 1.5 million dollars have been distributed through the program, helping 8,635 families.

The money distributed by Project Deserve was donated by Entergy Arkansas employees mostly through payroll deduction; customers, usually by adding a dollar or more onto each electric bill payment; retirees; and Entergy shareholders via a company match of all new customer contributions (up to $500,000) and all employee contributions.

Also today, Entergy Arkansas presented a donation of $1,875 to Watershed Human and Community Development Agency. Watershed will use the money to buy box fans to give away to its constituents who either have no air conditioning or will use the fans to augment their air conditioning and lower their energy bills.

Entergy Arkansas, Inc. provides electricity to 680,000 customers in 63 counties. Entergy Corporation is an integrated energy company engaged primarily in electric power production and retail distribution operations. Entergy owns and operates power plants with approximately 30,000 megawatts of electric generating capacity, and it is the second-largest nuclear generator in the United States. Entergy delivers electricity to 2.7 million utility customers in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas. Entergy has annual revenues of more than $13 billion and approximately 14,700 employees.

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More information is available on Entergy’s Web site at entergy-arkansas.com