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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 of the generation cost recovery relate-back rider for the Hardin County Peaking Facility effective over three months beginning in May 2023.

See Note 2 to the financial statements for further discussion of the regulatory proceedings discussed above.

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Table of ContentsEntergy Corporation and SubsidiariesManagement’s Financial Discussion and Analysis

Total electric energy sales for Utility for the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023 are as follows:

20242023% Change(GWh)Residential36,039 36,372 (1)Commercial28,251 28,221 — Industrial57,081 52,807 8 Governmental2,480 2,458 1 Total retail123,851 119,858 3 Sales for resale14,010 15,189 (8)Total137,861 135,047 2 

See Note 19 to the financial statements for additional discussion of operating revenues.

Other Income Statement Items

Utility

Other operation and maintenance expenses increased from $2,838 million for 2023 to $2,851 million for 2024 primarily due to:

•an increase of $38 million in compensation and benefits costs primarily due to higher healthcare claims activity, including lower prescription drug rebates in 2024 as compared to 2023, and higher incentive-based accruals in 2024 as compared to 2023;

•an increase of $19 million in energy efficiency expenses primarily due to the timing of recovery from customers;

•an increase of $15 million in transmission costs allocated by MISO.  See Note 2 to the financial statements for discussion of the recovery of these costs;

•the effects of recording a final judgment in first quarter 2023 to resolve claims in the ANO damages case against the DOE related to spent nuclear fuel storage costs.  The damages awarded included the reimbursement of approximately $10 million of spent nuclear fuel storage costs previously recorded as other operation and maintenance expenses.  See Note 8 to the financial statements for discussion of the spent nuclear fuel litigation;

•an increase of $10 million in loss provisions;

•an increase of $8 million in storm damage provisions;

•an increase of $7 million in bad debt expense; and

•a gain of $7 million on the partial sale of a service center at Entergy Texas in April 2023 as part of an eminent domain proceeding.

The increase was partially offset by:

•a decrease of $54 million in power delivery expenses primarily