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

•the timing of payments to vendors.

The decrease was partially offset by higher collections from customers and a decrease of $14.6 million in spending on nuclear refueling outages in 2025 as compared to 2024.

Investing Activities

Net cash flow used in investing activities decreased $228.4 million for the six months ended June 30, 2025 compared to the six months ended June 30, 2024 primarily due to:

•the initial payment of approximately $169.7 million in February 2024 for the purchase of the Walnut Bend Solar facility.  See Note 14 to the financial statements in the Form 10-K for discussion of the Walnut Bend Solar facility purchase;

•money pool activity;

•a decrease of $27.7 million in information technology capital expenditures primarily due to decreased spending on technology upgrade projects in 2025; and

•a decrease of $26.9 million in transmission construction expenditures primarily due to decreased spending on various transmission projects in 2025.

The decrease was partially offset by an increase of $50.8 million in non-nuclear generation construction expenditures primarily due to higher spending on the Lake Catherine Unit 5 project and an increase of $36.3 million in distribution construction expenditures primarily due to higher capital expenditures for storm restoration in 2025.

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Table of ContentsEntergy Arkansas, LLC and SubsidiariesManagement’s Financial Discussion and Analysis

Increases in Entergy Arkansas’s receivable from the money pool are a use of cash flow, and Entergy Arkansas’s receivable from the money pool increased $49 million for the six months ended June 30, 2025 compared to increasing by $130.6 million for the six months ended June 30, 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 decreased $702 million for the six months ended June 30, 2025 compared to the six months ended June 30, 2024 primarily due to:

•the issuances of $400 million of 5.45% Series mortgage bonds and $400 million of 5.75% Series mortgage