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Residential and Small Commercial
Battery Pilot Program

Earn annual cash incentives by participating in the Energy Smart Residential and Small Commercial Battery Pilot Program. This free program for Entergy New Orleans residential and small commercial customers allows Entergy to access stored energy from your battery system on peak demand days, providing more resilient and sustainable power to you. Plus, with the ability to opt out, you are always in control.


***Tesla battery owners please enroll through the app.
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To maximize the Grid Services performance, Participant’s battery will be automatically set in Full Backup Mode 24 hours in advance of each discharge event and will automatically be returned to the customer’s battery mode setting immediately after the discharge event.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Active Entergy New Orleans residential and small commercial customers who have a compatible solar connected battery energy storage system (BESS). The pilot program is limited to the first 125 residential and 15 small commercial customers who enroll and meet system qualifications.

Currently, the program has integrations with Tesla and EnPhase battery systems.  In the future, the program will be integrated with many other platforms.  If you receive an invitation to apply, there is a high chance that your system qualifies and will be validated upon program enrollment.

Residential customers are eligible to receive up to $600 for participation in the program.  Small Commercial customers are eligible to receive up to $1,800 per customer.

Incentive payments will be calculated based on participation in demand response events during the season at the rate of $125/ average kW delivered across all events capped at $600 per residential customer. Small commercial participants will receive the incentive at a rate of $250/ average kW delivered across all events capped at $1,800 per small commercial customer.

In the case where no events are called during the program year, you will receive the full participation incentive amount.

Events will be determined by Entergy New Orleans or in response to a period of peak demand. Enrolled customers may opt out of any event.

Events will not exceed thirty (30) events per season. Each event will not be longer than three hours and BESS will not be discharged below 20%.

No, there is not a referral incentive at this time.

Incentive is provided only one time per customer per program year. Participation incentive is processed at the end of the program year.

The incentive will be available through November 15, 2024,  as long as incentive funds are available.

Events will not be called if severe weather or a hurricane is projected to hit Orleans Parish within the following 48 hours.

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