Company: EAI
Filing Date: 2025-05-01
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0000065984-25-000046
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Company: ENTERGY ARKANSAS, LLC
Filing Date: 2025-05-01
Form: 10-Q
Item: Item 1
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Operating Activities

Net cash flow provided by operating activities decreased $49.1 million for the three months ended March 31, 2025 compared to the three months ended March 31, 2024 primarily due to the timing of recovery of fuel and purchased power costs, an increase of $38.7 million in interest paid, higher fuel and purchased power payments, and lower collections from customers.  The decrease was partially offset by the timing of payments to vendors.  See Note 2 to the financial statements in the Form 10-K for a discussion of fuel and purchased power cost recovery.

Investing Activities

Entergy Texas’s investing activities used $441.0 million of cash for the three months ended March 31, 2025 compared to providing $34.3 million of cash for the three months ended March 31, 2024 primarily due to the following activity:

•money pool activity;

•an increase of $131.5 million in non-nuclear generation construction expenditures primarily due to higher spending on the Legend Power Station project and the Orange County Advanced Power Station project;

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•an increase of $52 million in transmission construction expenditures primarily due to increased spending on various transmission projects in 2025 and higher capital expenditures as a result of increased development in Entergy Texas’s service area; and

•a decrease of $17.9 million in information technology capital expenditures primarily due to decreased spending on various technology projects in 2025.

Increases in Entergy Texas’s receivable from the money pool are a use of cash flow, and Entergy Texas’s receivable from the money pool increased $36.2 million for the three months ended March 31, 2025 compared to decreasing by $267.6 million for the three months ended March 31, 2024.  The money pool is an intercompany cash management program that makes possible intercompany borrowing and lending arrangements, and the money pool and other borrowing arrangements are designed to reduce the Registrant Subsidiaries’ dependence on external short-term borrowings.

Financing Activities

Net cash flow provided by financing activities increased $481.6 million for the three months ended March 31, 2025 compared to the three months ended March 31, 2024 primarily due to the issuance of $500 million of 5.25% Series mortgage bonds in February 2025, partially offset by a decrease of $12.