Company: EAI
Filing Date: 2025-08-01
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0000065984-25-000087
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Company: ENTERGY ARKANSAS, LLC
Filing Date: 2025-08-01
Form: 10-Q
Item: Item 1
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 capital accounts, and higher collections from customers.  The increase was partially offset by:

•higher fuel and purchased power payments and the timing of recovery of fuel and purchased power costs.  See Note 2 to the financial statements herein and in the Form 10-K for a discussion of fuel and purchased power cost recovery;

•an increase of $45.4 million in interest paid; and

•an increase of $19 million in spending on nuclear refueling outages in 2025 as compared to 2024.

Investing Activities

Net cash flow used in investing activities increased $828.6 million for the six months ended June 30, 2025 compared to the six months ended June 30, 2024 primarily due to:

•an increase of $347.7 million in non-nuclear generation construction expenditures primarily due to higher spending on new generation resources in north Louisiana and the Sterlington solar project;

•an increase of $183.9 million in distribution construction expenditures primarily due to increased investment in the resilience of the distribution system;

•an increase of $135.7 million in transmission construction expenditures primarily due to higher capital expenditures as a result of increased development in Entergy Louisiana’s service area, higher spending on the Commodore transmission projects, and increased spending on various other transmission projects in 2025;

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•an increase in cash used of $98.9 million as a result of fluctuations in nuclear fuel activity due to variations from year to year in the timing and pricing of fuel reload requirements, materials and services deliveries, and the timing of cash payments during the nuclear fuel cycle;

•an increase of $94.5 million in nuclear construction expenditures primarily due to increased spending on various nuclear projects in 2025; and

•money pool activity.

The increase was partially offset by the receipt of $33.5 million from the storm reserve escrow account in 2025 and a decrease of $22.8 million in information technology capital expenditures primarily due to decreased spending on technology upgrade projects in 2025.  See Note 2 to the financial statements herein for a discussion of the storm reserve funds.

Increases in Entergy Louisiana’s receivable from the money pool are a use of cash flow, and Entergy Louisiana’s receivable from the money pool increased $48.5 million for the six months ended June 30, 2025 compared to increasing by $31.4 million for the six months ended