Company: EAI
Filing Date: 2025-02-18
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0000065984-25-000012
Chunk: 802

Company: ENTERGY ARKANSAS, LLC
Filing Date: 2025-02-18
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 7
Chunk 802
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•other adverse impacts on their ability to execute on business strategies and initiatives.

To the extent any of these events occur, the business, results of operations, and financial condition of Entergy and the Utility operating companies could be adversely affected.

The reputation of Entergy or its Registrant Subsidiaries may be materially adversely affected by negative publicity or the inability to meet its stated goals or commitments, among other potential causes.

As with any company, Entergy’s and its Registrant Subsidiaries’ reputations are an important element of their ability to effectively conduct their businesses.  Entergy’s and its Registrant Subsidiaries’ reputations could be harmed by a variety of factors, including: failure of a generating asset or supporting infrastructure; failure to restore power after a hurricane or other severe weather event or catastrophe in a manner perceived as timely by regulators or customers; the incurrence of storm restoration costs perceived as excessive by regulators or customers; failure to effectively manage land and other natural resources; failure to obtain land and secure permits for infrastructure investments; failure to execute on and/or obtain regulatory approvals for generation, transmission, or other facilities; real or perceived violations of environmental regulations, including those related to climate change; real or perceived issues surrounding the safety or environmental concerns regarding carbon capture and storage; real or perceived issues with Entergy’s safety culture; challenges or negative reaction to Entergy’s diversity, inclusion, and belonging efforts, or work culture and environment; challenges or negative reaction to Entergy’s climate goals; inability to meet their climate goals, including as a result of increased sales growth, or to achieve their human capital strategies, or failure to demonstrate meaningful progress toward such goals or strategies; deterioration in relations with bargaining employees and labor unions representing them; inability to effectively prepare for major storms and other weather events, including accelerated resilience planning and projects and challenges in execution thereof, including obtaining necessary regulatory approvals for scope and timing of such plans and projects; inability to keep their electricity rates stable; inability to provide quality customer service, including timely and accurate billing; involvement in a class-action or other high-profile lawsuit; significant delays in, or termination of, construction projects, including as a result of or in connection with changes in regulation or governmental policy (such as tax and trade policy, including increased tariffs and supply chain challenges) or governmental programs (such as tax incentives or tax credits, loans, grants, guarantees, and other subsidies); occurrence of or responses to cyber attacks, data breaches or physical- or cyber- security vulnerabilities; acts or omissions of