FUELED | A Fenstermaker Podcast

In Episode 7 of FUELED Season 6, Kathryn Fenstermaker sits down with Phillip May, President and CEO of Entergy Louisiana, for a conversation about what happens when economic ambition reaches the electric grid—and the utility responsible for making it work. The episode serves as the system-scale capstone to a season spent examining Louisiana’s power landscape from multiple perspectives. May has worked inside that system for nearly four decades, joining Entergy in 1986 and leading Entergy Louisia

In Episode 6 of FUELED Season 6, Kathryn Fenstermaker sits down with Jean-Paul Coussan, Vice Chairman of the Louisiana Public Service Commission and Commissioner for District 2, to discuss how the Commission approaches some of Louisiana’s most consequential energy decisions. Coussan begins by explaining the Commission’s broad constitutional authority to regulate utilities and protect the public interest. He also describes the personal side of that responsibility: his district office handles rou

In Episode 5 of FUELED Season 6, Kathryn Fenstermaker sits down with Susan Bourgeois, Secretary of Louisiana Economic Development, for a conversation about the relationship between power, economic growth, and Louisiana’s ability to compete for the industries shaping the next generation of the American economy. Bourgeois begins with her determination to change both the reality and the narrative of opportunity in Louisiana. She describes accepting the role at LED with a mandate to transform a sys

In Episode 4 of FUELED Season 6, Kathryn Fenstermaker sits down with Georges Antoun, Chief Commercial Officer of First Solar, for a conversation about utility-scale solar, American manufacturing, and the generation shift shaping Louisiana’s energy future. The episode moves the season from power delivery, public power strategy, and grid resilience into the question of generation itself. Antoun explains First Solar’s role in the power ecosystem as a solar panel manufacturer whose technology turns

In Episode 3 of FUELED Season 6, Kathryn Fenstermaker sits down with Mike Heinen, Chief Executive Officer of Jeff Davis Electric Cooperative, for a conversation that moves beyond storm restoration to examine what true resilience demands. Serving one of the most hurricane-prone regions in the country, Heinen has spent decades leading through crisis. After Hurricanes Laura and Delta devastated Southwest Louisiana, JDEC faced a choice: rebuild the system exactly as it had existed or use the disast

In Episode 2 of FUELED Season 6, Kevin Bihm, General Manager of the Louisiana Energy and Power Authority, joins Kathryn Fenstermaker for a conversation about municipal power, collective strategy, and the evolving energy landscape in Louisiana. LEPA was created in 1979 as a political subdivision of the State of Louisiana to give qualifying municipalities another path for securing wholesale power. For smaller cities that owned their electric distribution systems, the model created an opportunity