Company: EAI
Filing Date: 2025-02-18
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0000065984-25-000012
Chunk: 716

Company: ENTERGY ARKANSAS, LLC
Filing Date: 2025-02-18
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 7
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ergy Louisiana submitted for consideration a proposal to extend the infrastructure rider to address replacement of an additional 187 miles of pipe.  In December 2022, Entergy Louisiana and the LPSC staff submitted an uncontested settlement that extends the rider for an additional ten years beginning after the end of the current term of the rider in 2025.  The extension is subject to the same customer safeguards and conditions as the original term of the rider.  The extension 

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allows for recovery of approximately $95 million over ten years.  In February 2023 the uncontested settlement was approved by the LPSC.

Storm Cost Recovery

See Note 2 to the financial statements for a discussion of Entergy Louisiana’s filings to recover storm-related costs.

LPSC Customer-Centered Options Rulemaking

In December 2019, an LPSC commissioner issued an unopposed directive to the LPSC staff to research customer-centered options for all customer classes, as well as other regulatory environments and recommend a plan for how to ensure customers are the focus.  Since 2020, the LPSC staff has issued several requests for information on proposed scope and information related to retail open access, and interested parties filed responses to the requests.

In June 2024 the LPSC staff issued its Final Phase 1 Report setting forth a recommendation on sleeved PPAs, including many features similar to utility green tariffs previously approved by the LPSC, and adopting numerous limits and safeguards that had been proposed in comments by LPSC-jurisdictional utilities.  The Final Phase 1 Report also addressed various new reporting requirements for all LPSC-jurisdictional utilities, including reliability metrics, customer counts, customers receiving federal Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program aid, utility authorized and earned returns on equity, and other items.  The report also recommended that the LPSC adopt requirements that, with each rate filing, a utility report certain information regarding bill impacts and similar matters.  In June 2024 the LPSC voted unanimously to approve the LPSC staff’s Final Phase 1 Report and proposal, and an order was issued in August 2024.

In December 2024 the LPSC staff issued its Phase 2 Report, addressing enhanced combined heat and power options, energy displacement sleeved PPAs, and other matters.  The LPSC staff also issued various data requests to be answered by all jurisdictional utilities.  The LPSC staff has indicated that the