Energy

CPRA waiting to assess damage to projects along coast

The Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority has spent years improving Louisiana’s coast. Hurricane Ida may have put a damper on its work.

Riegel: The difficult realities of life in south Louisiana

Whether its hurricanes, our quality of life or our eroding coast, it's getting harder to ask our children to remain in Louisiana.

Supply problems continue to hamper access to gasoline 

Demand for gasoline in the Baton Rouge area has lessened in recent days, as electricity has been restored to nearly 99% of all homes and businesses in the parish. 

Feds outline plans to move forward with Gulf oil and gas lease sale 

A sale notice for Lease Sale 257 in the Gulf of Mexico will likely...

Debris removal in Baton Rouge underway; recycling temporarily suspended  

Debris cleanup from Hurricane Ida will cost an estimated $9 million in East Baton Rouge Parish, which was largely spared the worst of the storm.

Ida creates ‘feast or famine situation’ for truckers

The aftermath of Hurricane Ida has been a boon for some companies in the trucking sector and a hindrance for others, says Renee Amar, executive director of the Louisiana Motor Transport Association. 
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APTIM gets $25M federal ocean energy management contract 

Baton Rouge-based APTIM has been awarded an $25 million contract from the U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management.

What would it cost to bury our power lines? 

Hurricane Ida plunged more than 1 million customers on the Gulf Coast into darkness,...

BCP-owned United Utility acquires Williams Electric Company

Baton Rouge-based United Utility, a Bernhard Capital Partners company, has acquired Williams Electric Company,...

Nearly 30% of EBR still in the dark; see BRAC’s latest power outage tracker  

The Baton Rouge Area Chamber has been tracking all available data related to power...