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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 and the LPSC staff jointly filed, for consideration by the LPSC, an uncontested stipulated settlement agreement resolving all issues in the proceeding.  In the motion requesting approval of the uncontested stipulated settlement agreement, the parties requested a settlement hearing in March 2025.

In December 2024, Entergy Louisiana filed an application seeking a certificate of public convenience and necessity for a 500 kV transmission project that includes the construction of a new 84-mile Commodore to Churchill 500 kV transmission line, the expansion of the Waterford 500 kV substation, the construction of a new Churchill 500 kV substation and improvements to the Churchill 230 kV substation, and the conversion of the existing 230 kV Waterford to Churchill transmission line to 500 kV, forming a 500 kV loop into the Downstream of Gypsy load pocket.  The project, which was approved by MISO in the 2023 MISO Transmission Expansion Plan, shares common elements with a future transmission project in the same area consisting of 230 kV elements.  The estimated cost of the project is $954.7 million.

Resilience and Grid Hardening

In December 2022, Entergy Louisiana filed an application with the LPSC seeking a public interest finding regarding Phase I of Entergy Louisiana’s Future Ready resilience plan and approval of a rider mechanism to recover the program’s costs.  Phase I in the December 2022 application reflected the first five years of a ten-year resilience plan and included investment of approximately $5 billion, including hardening investment, transmission dead-end structures, enhanced vegetation management, and telecommunications improvement.  In April 2024 the LPSC approved a framework which includes an initial five-year resilience plan providing for an investment of 

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approximately $1.9 billion with cost recovery via a forward-looking rider with semi-annual true-ups.  The plan is subject to specified reporting requirements and includes a performance review of the hardened assets.  The LPSC order approving the framework does not include any restrictions on Entergy Louisiana’s ability to file applications for approval of additional investments in resilience.

The LPSC had previously opened a formal rulemaking proceeding in December 2021 to investigate efforts to improve resilience of electric utility infrastructure.  In April 2023 the LPSC staff issued a draft rule in the rulemaking proceeding related to a requirement to file a grid resilience plan