Company: EAI
Filing Date: 2025-02-18
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0000065984-25-000012
Chunk: 71

Company: ENTERGY ARKANSAS, LLC
Filing Date: 2025-02-18
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1A
Chunk 71
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ergy Texas combined-cycle, gas turbine RFP.  Regulatory approval was received in November 2022 and construction has commenced.  The facility is expected to be in service by mid-2026;

•In November 2021, Entergy Louisiana signed an agreement for the purchase of an approximately 150 MW to-be-constructed solar photovoltaic energy facility, St. Jacques facility, to be sited in St. James Parish near Vacherie, Louisiana.  In September 2022 the LPSC issued an order approving the St. Jacques facility; however, following the LPSC approval, the St. James Parish council issued a moratorium on new land use permits for solar facilities.  In November 2023, St. James Parish lifted the moratorium and adopted an ordinance modifying the parish’s land use plan to establish solar as an approved land use and defining corresponding solar regulations.  In June 2024 the St. James Parish council denied the project developer’s solar energy facility farm permit application and following this denial, the project developer and one of the project’s ground lessors filed separate lawsuits seeking to overturn the council’s decision.  Entergy Louisiana is currently monitoring the status of the aforementioned lawsuits and also considering alternate paths forward;

•In August 2022, Entergy Arkansas signed an agreement for the purchase of an approximately 250 MW to-be-constructed solar photovoltaic energy facility, Driver Solar facility, located near Osceola, Arkansas.  Also in August 2022, Entergy Arkansas received regulatory approval from the APSC for the Driver Solar facility.  In August 2024, Entergy Arkansas acquired the facility.  The Driver Solar facility commenced commercial operation in December 2024;

•Entergy Louisiana began construction on the 49 MW Sterlington solar project in December 2024, located in Sterlington, Louisiana.  The facility is expected to achieve commercial operation in January 2026;

•Entergy Mississippi will begin construction on the Delta Solar facility, an 80 MW solar facility to be located in Bolivar County, Mississippi, in April 2026.  The facility is expected to achieve commercial operation by the end of 2027; and

•Entergy Mississippi will begin construction on the Penton Solar facility, a 190 MW solar facility in December 2025.  The facility is expected to achieve commercial operation by early 2028.

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Table of ContentsPart I Item 1Entergy Corporation, Utility operating companies, and System Energy

The RFP process