Company: EAI
Filing Date: 2025-05-01
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0000065984-25-000046
Chunk: 162

Company: ENTERGY ARKANSAS, LLC
Filing Date: 2025-05-01
Form: 10-Q
Item: Item 7
Chunk 162
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 than proceeding with development of all of the proposed new generation resources.  Entergy Louisiana’s rebuttal testimony is due in May 2025, and a hearing is set for July 2025.

Entergy Louisiana Transmission Projects

As discussed in the Form 10-K, in March 2024, Entergy Louisiana filed an application with the LPSC seeking an exemption determination, or alternatively, a certificate of public convenience and necessity, for a transmission project that includes a new 500 kV/230 kV Commodore substation and an approximately 60-mile 230 kV line connecting the new Commodore substation to the Waterford substation.  In February 2025, Entergy Louisiana and the LPSC staff jointly filed, for consideration by the LPSC, an uncontested stipulated settlement agreement resolving all issues in the proceeding.  The LPSC approved the uncontested stipulated settlement agreement in March 2025 and thereby granted certification of the project.

As discussed in the Form 10-K, in December 2024, Entergy Louisiana filed an application with the LPSC seeking a certificate of public convenience and necessity for a 500 kV transmission project that includes the construction of a new 84-mile Commodore to Churchill 500 kV transmission line, the expansion of the Waterford 

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500 kV substation, the construction of a new Churchill 500 kV substation and improvements to the Churchill 230 kV substation, and the conversion of the existing 230 kV Waterford to Churchill transmission line to 500 kV, forming a 500 kV loop into the Downstream of Gypsy load pocket.  In April 2025 the LPSC staff and the Louisiana Energy Users Group, an intervenor, filed direct testimony.  The LPSC staff’s testimony recommends LPSC approval of the project.  The Louisiana Energy Users Group’s testimony opines that Entergy Louisiana has shown that there is a need for additional transmission investment in the West Bank area of Amite South but recommends that the LPSC withhold approval pending further analysis, including analysis of potential lower cost alternatives to the proposed project, and also pending Entergy Louisiana demonstrating that it has contributions in aid of construction from the customers whose block load additions would be enabled by the proposed transmission project in amounts sufficient to substantially, if not fully, cover the revenue requirement of the proposed project.  Discovery is ongoing in the proceeding, and a hearing