Company: EAI
Filing Date: 2025-02-18
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0000065984-25-000012
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Company: ENTERGY ARKANSAS, LLC
Filing Date: 2025-02-18
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 7
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 which judgment may prove to be incorrect or may be disputed by regulators or taxing authorities.  These tax obligations include income, franchise, real estate, sales and use, and employment-related taxes.  These judgments include provisions for potential adverse outcomes regarding tax positions that have been taken.  Entergy and its subsidiaries also estimate their ability to utilize tax benefits, including those in the form of carryforwards for which the benefits have already been reflected in the financial statements.  Changes in federal, state, or local tax laws or interpretive guidance relating thereto, adverse tax audit results or adverse tax rulings on positions taken by Entergy and its subsidiaries could negatively affect Entergy’s and the Registrant Subsidiaries’ results of operations, financial condition, and liquidity.  The intended and unintended consequences of recently enacted legislation could have a material adverse impact on Entergy’s financial results and future cash flows.  For further information regarding Entergy’s income taxes, see the “Income Tax Legislation and Regulation” section of Entergy Corporation and Subsidiaries Management’s Financial Discussion and Analysis and Note 3 to the financial statements.

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Entergy and its subsidiaries’ ability to successfully execute on their business strategies, including their ability to execute on their growth strategies and to complete strategic transactions, is subject to significant risks, and, as a result, they may be unable to achieve some or all of the anticipated results of such strategies.

Entergy and its subsidiaries’ future prospects and results of operations significantly depend on their ability to successfully implement their business strategies, including executing on their growth strategy and achieving Entergy’s climate goals and commitments, which are subject to business, regulatory, economic, shareholder activism and other risks and uncertainties, many of which are beyond their control.  As a result, Entergy and its subsidiaries may be unable to fully achieve the anticipated results of such strategies.

Entergy and its subsidiaries anticipate a high level of load growth in their industrial and large commercial customer segments, including from large data centers owned by a small number of large customers.  Entergy and its subsidiaries may be unsuccessful in capturing such opportunities or the opportunities to serve these new large customers may not materialize to the degree currently expected.  Entergy and its subsidiaries also may not have access to the capital needed to finance the incremental growth on terms and conditions satisfactory to Entergy or its subsidiaries and consistent with the maintenance