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 3
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 Elizabeth Facility each achieved commercial operation in 2024, and the Vacherie Facility and the St. Jacques Facility originally had estimated in service dates in 2025.

In August 2022 the parties reached a settlement certifying the 2021 Solar Portfolio and approving implementation of Rider GGO.  In September 2022 the LPSC approved the settlement.  Following the LPSC approval, the St. James Parish council issued a moratorium on new land use permits for solar facilities until the later of March 2023 or the completion of an environmental and economic impact study.  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 March 2024 the project developer submitted a solar energy facility farm permit application to the St. James Parish planning commission to request approval for the Vacherie and St. Jacques Facilities.  In June 2024 the St. James Parish council denied the 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.  The council’s decision was subsequently affirmed by the Louisiana 23rd Judicial District Court.  Entergy Louisiana is no longer pursuing the addition of resources through an acquisition of the St. Jacques Facility or through a power purchase agreement with the Vacherie Facility.

Additional Generation and Transmission Resources

As discussed in the Form 10-K, in October 2024, Entergy Louisiana filed an application with the LPSC seeking approval of a variety of generation and transmission resources proposed in connection with establishing service to a new data center to be developed by a subsidiary of Meta Platforms, Inc. in north Louisiana, for which an electric service agreement has been executed.  The filing requests LPSC certification of three new combined cycle combustion turbine generation resources totaling 2,262 MW, each of which will be enabled for future carbon capture and storage, a new 500 kV transmission line, and 500 kV substation upgrades.  The application also requests approval to implement a corporate sustainability rider applicable to the new customer.  The corporate sustainability rider contemplates the new customer contributing to the costs of the future addition of 1,500 MW of new solar and energy storage resources, agreements involving carbon capture and storage at Entergy Louisiana’s existing Lake Charles Power Station, and potential future wind and nuclear resources.  Entergy Louisiana anticipates funding the incremental cost to serve the customer