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Sustainable growth: opportunity and challenge
We’re optimizing our generation for a cleaner and more efficient future
To meet our region’s expanding industrial growth, Entergy is focused on transitioning to the cleaner energy resources our customers are asking for. To help customers reduce their own greenhouse gas emissions, we’re expanding our renewable generation. Plans call for more than 5,000 megawatts of solar power added in 2025 through 2028. We’re also investing in several new modern and efficient natural gas plants to help meet demand. We will work to mitigate the carbon emissions from any such new plants by equipping them with the option for hydrogen co-firing and/or carbon capture and storage, two technologies that are continuing to develop. And we’re actively exploring potential power upgrades and license extensions at our existing nuclear facilities in Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi.
Milestones
In 2019 and 2022, respectively, we established two interim goals associated with our commitment to achieving net zero emissions by 2050: 50% emission rate reduction by 2030 and 50% carbon-free energy-generating capacity by 2030. Recognizing that some of our new generation resources will be cleaner but not carbon-free, we expect our interim capacity goal to be delayed for an as-yet undetermined period beyond 2030. And while current planning assumptions indicate our interim emission rate goal remains achievable, its timeline could also be challenged if demand increases beyond the current forecast and supply plan. Even so, Entergy’s long-term commitment to net-zero emissions remains unchanged.
Our progress as of year-end 2024
26% toward our 2030 goal of 50% carbon-free capacity.
Includes all generation, utility
owned and power purchase
agreements.
29.81% toward our 2030 goal of 50% emission rate reduction.
Includes all generation, utility owned, and controlled and market purchases.
Progress toward our 2050 net-zero commitment
(U.S. average presented through 2023)
Entergy’s 2030 goal and historical results include emissions from both utility-owned assets and all types of purchased power.
On our path to net-zero carbon emissions, we’re investing in carbon-free and carbon-managed technologies. Opportunities for cleaner resources include those that exist today and those that are maturing. The chart below provides an illustrative view of a potential timeline for adopting these technologies. Our plan includes ceasing use of coal by the end of 2030.
