Utilities

Electric Power is cheaper in the Shreveport area than the national average. AEP – SWEPCO average Industrial rate is 1.5% less expensive than the state average, 33.1% less than the national average!

AEP – SWEPCO also has incentives with the maximum benefit of a 3-year demand charge reduction of 40% in year 1, 30% in year 2, and 20% in year 3 for projects over 1MW and that create more than 31 jobs.

Shreveport sits atop the Haynesville/Bossier Shale area.

Estimates indicate 304 Tcf of recoverable natural gas for the combined Haynesville and Bossier formations.

• Pipeline takeaway capacity out of the Haynesville is estimated to be around 16 billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d)

• 78,000,000 gpd Water Plant Capacity
• 40,000,000 gpd Average Daily Consumption
• 65,000,000 gpd Peak Consumption
• 16,000,000 gpd Ground Storage Capacity
• 6,00,000 gpd Elevated Storage Capacity
• 5,000,000 gpd Excess Capacity
• 40 to 70 psi Pressure in Mains

AT&T has over 1.97 million strand miles of fiber optics in Louisiana. Additionally, there are a number of AT&T Fiber Ready buildings in the Shreveport area, where tenants have access to AT&T’s fiber-based, high-speed services.

From connected co-location to hybrid-ready cloud, a comprehensive portfolio of Hybrid IT solutions is purpose-built to accelerate business performance. CenturyLink provides total communication solutions to large and small businesses in Shreveport.

Fiber-optic based provider of high-performance communications services, including advanced voice services, internet accevss services and private networks. Conterra delivers a comprehensive suite of telecom services, including leading-edge converged services.

Offering Shreveport businesses communications solutions including VOIP phone services, high speed Internet and Ethernet, all delivered via a state-of-the-art fiber optic network.