NEW ORLEANS – Entergy Corporation announced today it is establishing an interim headquarters in the Jackson, Miss., metropolitan area during the post-hurricane period when it will not be able to operate its existing headquarters in New Orleans.

The location is in an office complex in the Jackson suburb of Clinton, Miss.

Entergy employees who normally work in downtown New Orleans – including those on the corporate and transmission staffs – will either work in Clinton or be spread during the interim between facilities around the New Orleans suburbs and in such other major company locations as Little Rock, Ark., Houston, Tex., and Beaumont, Tex. In addition, some employees may work from home via telecommuting.

Entergy New Orleans, Inc., the corporate subsidiary that is the electric and natural gas subsidiary serving the city of New Orleans, will continue to fill that role. Likewise, Entergy Louisiana, Inc., another subsidiary, will continue to be the provider of electricity to much of the New Orleans suburbs.

“New Orleans is Entergy’s home and we are absolutely dedicated to the city’s reconstruction and resurrection,” said J. Wayne Leonard, the company’s chief executive officer. “We are hopeful that we will be able to return home soon. Our ability to do that depends, of course, on a number of factors over which we do not have complete control.”

These include, Leonard said, restoration of the city’s infrastructure, any repairs that may be necessary to the buildings it occupied before Hurricane Katrina crippled much of the city on August 29, and a return to order in the city after a week of violence and civil unrest.

“We felt it was extremely important that the site for the interim headquarters be within the four-state territory our utilities serve,” said Leonard. Entergy Mississippi, Inc., a corporate subsidiary, provides electricity to the Jackson area, including Clinton.

He added that the company recognized the need to have its senior executives working together in a common location and Jackson already is the headquarters of Entergy Nuclear, Inc. and the company’s emergency command center for coordinating the restoration of power to customers impacted by the hurricane.

In addition, Leonard said, the Jackson area is near enough to the New Orleans metropolitan area – 180 miles – for employees to reconnect their families and rebuild their lives after the devastating storm.

Leonard thanked Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour for “helping cut through the red tape to make the leasing of the facilities possible, to ensure that employees’ children can quickly enroll in local schools, and to make this interim experience work for Entergy and our people.”

He similarly thanked Gov. Rick Perry of Texas, Gov. Mike Huckabee of Arkansas and Gov. Kathleen Blanco of Louisiana for providing similar assistance for employees who will temporarily be situated in Little Rock, Houston, Beaumont or locations in metropolitan New Orleans.

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 $10 billion and approximately 14,000 employees.

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Entergy’s online address is www.entergy.com