Houma sits in the heart of bayou country, and that location defines everything about power
here. Most of the city is served by Entergy
Louisiana and the Terrebonne Parish utility, while the rural bayou communities further
out are wired by the member-owned co-op, SLECA
(the South Louisiana Electric Cooperative Association, serving the area since 1938). However
the lines reach you, they cross miles of open, low-lying coastal land to get there.
And that land is unforgiving. Terrebonne is among the lowest, most flood-exposed parishes in
the country — the highest natural point is only about 13 feet above sea level, and more than
85% of the parish is water and wetlands. The same exposure that floods homes also leaves the
power infrastructure standing in the path of every storm that comes off the Gulf.
Houma learned the worst-case version of this in 2021. Hurricane
Ida made Terrebonne and Lafourche ground zero — not a brush-by, a direct hit — and the
grid didn’t come back in days. Crews were rebuilding poles and lines for weeks, and parts of
the bayou waited the better part of a month for power in late-summer heat.
A permanently installed standby generator changes that math. It detects the outage and
restores power automatically — usually within seconds — and keeps a properly sized home
running for as long as the grid is down.
See how installation works →