Entergy, which delivers electricity to customers in Montgomery County, has started a variety of projects around the Conroe area to improve reliability, the company said.
Kurt Luker—an operations coordinator with Entergy—said in a March 1 interview that areas have been identified as problem areas, receiving the least amount of reliable service. As such, Luker said to combat this, Entergy has begun rebuilding its most aging and problematic sections within Conroe. Luker said Entergy is also installing protective devices to help minimize outages when problems—such as storms or public-inflicted damages on the system—do occur.
“By doing these projects, we are upgrading our system from a dated standard to our newest standards,” Luker said. “Our newest standards include high wind mitigation that will help in the hurricane season that we are all familiar with living close to the Gulf Coast.”
Luker said Entergy has kept record of the power lines that have either had the most outages or are the oldest lines in the area to assess where reliability can be improved. Luker said he is working on infrastructure in the area of Avenue M in Conroe to east of Loop 336, as well as from Avenue M and FM 3083 north all the way to Hwy. 105.
