Company: EAI
Filing Date: 2025-02-18
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0000065984-25-000012
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Company: ENTERGY ARKANSAS, LLC
Filing Date: 2025-02-18
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 7
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 increased bandwidth payments that Entergy Arkansas made to the other operating companies.  The FERC also reversed the ALJ’s decision that Grand Gulf sales from January through September 2000 should be included in the calculation of Entergy Arkansas’s payment.  The FERC affirmed on other grounds the ALJ’s rejection of the LPSC’s claim that certain joint account sales should be accounted for as part of the calculation of Entergy Arkansas’s payment.  In November 2018 the LPSC requested rehearing of the FERC’s October 2018 decision.  In December 2019 the FERC denied the LPSC’s request for rehearing.  In January 2020 the LPSC appealed the December 2019 decision to the D.C. Circuit.

In December 2018, Entergy made a compliance filing in response to the FERC’s October 2018 order.  The compliance filing provided a final calculation of Entergy Arkansas’s payments to the other Utility operating companies, including interest.  No protests were filed in response to the December 2018 compliance filing.  Refunds and interest in the following amounts were paid by Entergy Arkansas to the other operating companies in December 2018:

 Total refunds including interestPayment/(Receipt) (In Millions)PrincipalInterestTotalEntergy Arkansas$68$67$135Entergy Louisiana($30)($29)($59)Entergy Mississippi($18)($18)($36)Entergy New Orleans($3)($4)($7)Entergy Texas($17)($16)($33)

Entergy Arkansas previously recognized a regulatory asset with a balance of $116 million as of December 31, 2018 for a portion of the payments due as a result of this proceeding.

As described above, the FERC’s opportunity sales orders were appealed to the D.C. Circuit.  In February 2020 all of the appeals were consolidated and in April 2020 the D.C. Circuit established a briefing schedule.  Briefing was completed in September 2020 and oral argument was heard in December 2020.  In July 2021 the D.C. Circuit issued a decision denying all of the petitions for review filed in response to the FERC’s opportunity sales orders.

In February 2019 the LPSC filed a new complaint relating to two issues that were raised in the opportunity sales proceeding, but that, in its October 2018 order, the FERC held were outside the scope of the proceeding.  In 

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