Company: EAI
Filing Date: 2025-10-31
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0000065984-25-000132
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Company: ENTERGY ARKANSAS, LLC
Filing Date: 2025-10-31
Form: 10-Q
Item: Item 3
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, 2025 compared to the nine months ended September 30, 2024 primarily due to:

•the receipt of $108.4 million in advance payments related to customer agreements in 2025, which are recorded as current liabilities and included within changes in other working capital accounts;

•higher collections from customers, including $25 million of deferred revenue in 2025; and

•the receipt of a $15 million liquidated damages payment in third quarter 2025 resulting from a counterparty’s termination of a purchased power agreement.

The increase was partially offset by the timing of payments to vendors and higher fuel and purchased power payments.  See Note 2 to the financial statements in the Form 10-K for a discussion of fuel and purchased power cost recovery.

Investing Activities

Net cash flow used in investing activities increased $639.7 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2025 compared to the nine months ended September 30, 2024 primarily due to:

•an increase of $592.1 million in non-nuclear generation construction expenditures primarily due to higher spending on the Delta Blues Advanced Power Station project, the Vicksburg Advanced Power Station project, the Penton Solar project, the Traceview Advanced Power Station project, and the Delta Solar project;

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•money pool activity; and

•an increase of $27 million in distribution construction expenditures primarily due to increased investment in the resilience of the distribution system.

The increase was partially offset by:

•a decrease of $16.7 million in transmission construction expenditures primarily due to decreased spending on various transmission projects in 2025;

•a decrease of $12.9 million in information technology capital expenditures primarily due to decreased spending on technology upgrade projects in 2025; and

•the receipt of a $14.5 million payment for the partial sale of transmission rights and excess land related to the sale of Entergy Mississippi’s interest in the Independence power plant in third quarter 2025.

Increases in Entergy Mississippi’s receivable from the money pool are a use of cash flow, and Entergy Mississippi’s receivable from the money pool increased $68.9 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2025 compared to increasing $3.4 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2024.  The money pool is an intercompany cash management program that makes possible intercompany borrowing and lending arrangements, and the