Company: EAI
Filing Date: 2025-08-06
Form Type: S-3ASR
Source: 0001193125-25-174487
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Company: ENTERGY ARKANSAS, LLC
Filing Date: 2025-08-06
Form: S-3ASR
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 to, us), our ability to access the short-term and long-term debt and equity capital markets, and our access to bank facilities. Various financing arrangements, charter provisions and statutory and regulatory requirements may impose
restrictions on the ability of our subsidiaries to transfer funds to us, including in the form of cash dividends, loans or advances or other distributions. The New Senior Notes will not be obligations of or guaranteed by any of our subsidiaries. As
a result, the New Senior Notes will be structurally subordinated to all debt, preferred securities and other liabilities of our subsidiaries, which means that creditors (including trade creditors, debt holders, secured creditors, taxing authorities
and guarantee holders) and preferred security holders of our subsidiaries will be paid from the assets of such subsidiaries before holders of the New Senior Notes would have any claims to

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those assets. The indenture does not limit the amount of debt or preferred securities that may be issued by our subsidiaries, whether secured or unsecured. As of June 30, 2025, our subsidiaries had approximately $25.189 billion of outstanding total indebtedness and preferred securities (including indebtedness due within one year). Defeasance Subject to certain conditions (including conditions that will be set forth in the officer’s certificate establishing a particular series of New Senior Notes), we will be discharged from our obligations in respect of the New Senior Notes if we irrevocably deposit with the trustee sufficient cash or government securities to pay the principal, interest, any premium and any other sums when due on the stated maturity date or a redemption date of the New Senior Notes. (Indenture, Section 701.) Consolidation, Merger and Sale of Assets The indenture provides that we may not consolidate with or merge into any other entity or convey, transfer or lease our properties and assets substantially as an entirety to any entity, unless:

| • |     | the surviving or successor entity or an entity which acquires by conveyance or transfer or which leases our                                                                                                                                             
 properties and assets substantially as an entirety is organized and validly existing under the laws of the United States of America or any state thereof or the District of Columbia and it expressly assumes our obligations on all outstanding senior 
 notes, including the New Senior Notes, and under the indenture;                                                                                                                                                                                         |

| • |     | immediately after giving effect to the transaction, no event of default under the indenture or no event which,      
 after notice or lapse of time or both, would become an event of default, shall have occurred and be continuing;