Company: EAI
Filing Date: 2025-10-31
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0000065984-25-000132
Chunk: 486

Company: ENTERGY ARKANSAS, LLC
Filing Date: 2025-10-31
Form: 10-Q
Item: Item 1
Chunk 486
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 PUCT decision is expected in fourth quarter 2025.  Subject to receipt of required regulatory approval and other conditions, construction of the project is expected to be completed by the end of 2028.

Resilience and Grid Hardening

In June 2024, Entergy Texas filed an application with the PUCT requesting approval of Phase I of its Texas Future Ready Resiliency Plan, a set of measures to begin accelerating the resiliency of Entergy Texas’s transmission and distribution system.  Phase I is comprised of projects totaling approximately $335.1 million, including approximately $137 million of projects to be funded by Entergy Texas and approximately $198 million of projects contingent upon Entergy Texas’s receipt of grant funds in that amount from the Texas Energy Fund.  The projects in Phase I include distribution and transmission hardening and modernization projects and targeted vegetation management projects to mitigate the risk of wildfire.  These projects are expected to be implemented within approximately three years of PUCT approval.  In January 2025 the PUCT unanimously approved Phase I of Entergy Texas’s Texas Future Ready Resiliency Plan, including the approximately $137 million of projects to be funded by Entergy Texas and application of performance metrics consistent with the unopposed settlement.  The PUCT clarified that, while not part of Entergy Texas’s Phase I plan, Entergy Texas is permitted to pursue the remaining $198 million of identified projects and Texas Energy Fund grant funding for those projects.  In February 2025 the PUCT issued an order adopting a new rule establishing the procedures for application to the grant fund.  In July 2025, Entergy Texas submitted an application for approximately $200 million in grant funding from the Texas Energy Fund to implement the resilience projects originally included in its Texas Future Ready Resiliency Plan.  In October 2025 the PUCT voted to approve the $200 million grant request in full.

State and Local Rate Regulation and Fuel-Cost Recovery

See “MANAGEMENT’S FINANCIAL DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS - State and Local Rate Regulation and Fuel-Cost Recovery” in the Form 10-K for a discussion of state and local rate regulation and fuel-cost recovery.  The following are updates to that discussion.

Retail Rates

Distribution Cost Recovery Factor (DCRF) Rider

In April 2025, Entergy Texas filed with the PUCT a request to amend its DCRF rider.  The amended rider was designed to collect from Entergy Texas’s retail customers approximately $77.8