NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Eight entries by Entergy Corporation have been named finalists in the prestigious annual Platts Global Energy Awards, including Industry Leadership, Power Company of the Year and CEO of the Year. Entergy had twice as many finalist entries as any other company.
The eight finalists bring to 47 the total Entergy submissions to earn that honor during the past 11 years of the competition, far more than any other energy corporation worldwide. In addition, only three other companies have won as many awards as Entergy.
Entergy Chairman and Chief Executive Officer J. Wayne Leonard was named a finalist for CEO of the Year for a record ninth consecutive year on the strength of his leadership, his efforts to spin-off Entergy's non-utility nuclear plants and his advocacy of a robust federal policy to combat climate change. He won the award in 2003. Adding to those honors, earlier this year Leonard was named one of the nation's "Best CEOs" and among the top five power industry CEOs for the sixth consecutive year by Institutional Investor magazine.
The company's work in support of mandatory, economically sound regulation of greenhouse gas emissions also was the basis for its selection as a finalist for the Industry Leadership Award. It is the latest recognition of Entergy's efforts to combat climate change. The company was recently named for the eighth straight year to the Dow Jones World Sustainability Index and honored for the sixth consecutive year by the Carbon Disclosure Project for its approach to climate change.
In addition, Entergy was included among the Power Company of the Year finalists for its overall performance, including its commitment to protecting the environment, its safety record, innovation and financial results. Entergy won this category in 2002 and 2003.
Other entries included among the finalists were: -- Entergy's low-income customer assistance initiative and Entergy Nuclear's research and development program at universities across its service territory, both competing for the Community Development Award. -- Entergy New Orleans, Inc.'s ongoing reconstruction of the city's natural gas distribution system in the wake of flooding from Hurricane Katrina for the Infrastructure Project of the Year Award. -- Entergy Texas, Inc.'s development and installation of state-of-the-art automatic load transfer technology to its power distribution system. -- Entergy Arkansas, Inc.'s infrastructure design for providing additional service to the University of Arkansas Medical System's research hospital in Little Rock. The winners will be announced Dec. 3 in New York City.
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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