Company: EAI
Filing Date: 2025-10-31
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0000065984-25-000132
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Company: ENTERGY ARKANSAS, LLC
Filing Date: 2025-10-31
Form: 10-Q
Item: Item 1
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  See Note 3 to the financial statements in the Form 10-K and see Note 10 to the financial statements herein for discussion of the nuclear production tax credits.

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 $96.9 million in interest paid;

•the timing of payments to vendors;

•an increase of $26 million in spending on nuclear refueling outages in 2025 as compared to 2024; and

•$21 million received in third quarter 2024 related to the wind up of the Nelson Industrial Steam Company (NISCO) partnership.  See Note 9 to the financial statements in the Form 10-K for a discussion of the NISCO partnership.

Investing Activities

Net cash flow used in investing activities increased $1,139.9 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2025 compared to the nine months ended September 30, 2024 primarily due to:

•an increase of $505 million in non-nuclear generation construction expenditures primarily due to higher spending on the Franklin Farms Power Station Units 1 and 2 project and the Sterlington Facility solar project;

•an increase of $267.1 million in distribution construction expenditures primarily due to increased investment in the resilience of the distribution system;

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•an increase of $237.2 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 Amite South transmission projects, and increased spending on various other transmission projects in 2025;

•an increase of $111.6 million in nuclear construction expenditures primarily due to increased spending on various nuclear projects in 2025;

•an increase in cash used of $110.7 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;

•money pool activity;

•payments totaling $41.4 million to Entergy Texas for the transfer of assets related to the Segno Solar and Votaw Solar facilities to Entergy Louisiana in third quarter 2025.  See “Uses