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 7
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.  In October 2025 the Board declared a dividend of $0.64 per share.

Cash Flow Activity

As shown in Entergy’s Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows, cash flows for the nine months ended September 30, 2025 and 2024 were as follows:

20252024(In Millions)Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of period$860 $133 Net cash provided by (used in):  Operating activities3,932 3,109 Investing activities(5,211)(4,002)Financing activities1,936 2,172 Net increase in cash and cash equivalents657 1,279 Cash and cash equivalents at end of period$1,517 $1,412 

Operating Activities

Net cash flow provided by operating activities increased $823 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2025 compared to the nine months ended September 30, 2024 primarily due to:

•higher collections from Utility customers;

•the receipt of $405 million in payments related to the sale of nuclear and solar production tax credits in third quarter 2025.  See Note 3 to the financial statements in the Form 10-K and Note 10 to the financial statements herein for discussion of the nuclear and solar production tax credits;

•the receipt of $313 million in advance payments related to customer agreements in 2025, which are recorded as current liabilities and included within changes in other working capital accounts;

•the timing of payments to vendors; and

•one-time bill credits of $92 million in third quarter 2024 to Entergy Arkansas’s retail customers through the Grand Gulf credit rider as a result of the System Energy settlement with the APSC.  See Note 2 to the financial statements in the Form 10-K for discussion of the System Energy settlement agreement with the APSC and Entergy Arkansas’s Grand Gulf credit rider.

The increase was partially offset by higher fuel and purchased power payments and an increase of $168 million in interest paid.  See Note 2 to the financial statements herein and in the Form 10-K for a discussion of fuel and purchased power cost recovery.

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Investing Activities

Net cash flow used in investing activities increased $1,209 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2025 compared to the nine months ended September 30, 2024 primarily due to:

•an increase of