Hurricane Ida: Power Restoration Critical to Recovery, Damage Assessment

SUGAR LAND--August 31, 2021--Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--Even as Hurricane Ida has weakened to a tropical depression and departed Louisiana, it has left hundreds of industrial plants with no electricity and standing flood waters. Restoring power to more than 900,000 people and hundreds of industrial plants will be difficult, with an estimated 216 substations and 207 transmission lines stretching more than 2,000 miles that are out of service in the storm-ravaged area.