Greenwell Springs, Louisiana – This morning DEMCO reports continued progress with 53% of all their 113,500 meters back in service. Remaining outages total 54,286.

Members will continue to see significant progress over the next 48 hours, but for others in more remote areas or where damage is much more significant, restoration could take two to four weeks.

All substations are ready to receive power, many are using power switching technology until metering points are restored, and as soon as transmission damage is repaired and it’s safe to do so, we are energizing lines.

Four substations - East Baton Rouge, West Feliciana, Ascension and Livingston - are powered up using switching technology until critical metering points are restored.

Parish updates are provided below:

Ascension – 15198 meters, 7198 out (52.64% energized)  The Airline substation has power and we’re energizing what we can in Gonzales, Prairieville, St. Amant and Galvez  French settlement substation is waiting for power at the metering point. This will restore many members in that area.  Due to damage to infrastructure, other areas can expect outages for one to two weeks.

East Baton Rouge –36046 meters, 9686 out (73.13% energized)  City of Baton Rouge – 17,961 meters, 6556 out (63.50% energized)  Metering Points: Flannery Rd restored; Terrell Rd still out  Restored: Thompson Creek, Zachary, Dyer Road to Indian Mound, Flannery Rd. to Greenwell Springs and Harrell’s Ferry  Live Oak to Watson is currently being worked  Most members will have power restored this week but about 1000 members in this area will require off-road equipment to get to them and will take longer to restore.

East Feliciana – 6201 meters, 2800 out (54.85 energized%)  Restoration in some areas around Clinton, Olive Branch and Pride today

Livingston – 46185 meters, 29026 out (37.15% energized)  This is the hardest hit area with severe flooding and damage to our system – poles and lines down and stripped and flooding continues to prevent safe access Media Contact Anne Hawes, 225-954-1112 AnneH@DEMCO.org Media Availability David Latona, 225-226-8149 DavidL@DEMCO.org  Distribution feeders that can receive power will be energized  Denham area – most of circuits hot; Main 3 phases are energized, but many single phase down  Good progress in the Juban, Watson and Walker areas  Crews working LIGO today, hoping to power up this evening or tomorrow  Working LIGO south circuit – circuits to restore businesses in Livingston – courthouse, homeland security building, epic, and plan to backfeed to get homeland cell tower on  Denbury substation to LIGO is estimated 9/5-9/7  Holden station is going to take weeks

St. Helena – 5410 meters, 4915 out (9.15% energized)  Greensburg and Pine Grove area will be 3-4 weeks estimated time of restoration – damage is severe in this area  Greensburg substation should be energized today  Distribution feeders that can receive power today will be energized  Working in the Grangeville to Darlington and Darlington to Greensburg beginning 9/3 with ETOR 9/3- 9/5

Tangipahoa – 628 meters, 626 out (3.10% energized%)  Outages in this area will take 3-4 weeks  Deploying right of way cutting soon

West Feliciana – 4513 meters, 31 out (99.52% energized)  We are close to complete restoration in Tunica, Bains and Elm Park.  Remaining outages have accessibility challenges and will take longer