Company: EAI
Filing Date: 2025-05-01
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0000065984-25-000046
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Company: ENTERGY ARKANSAS, LLC
Filing Date: 2025-05-01
Form: 10-Q
Item: Item 7
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 the APSC seeking a certificate of environmental compatibility and public need for the construction and operation of Lake Catherine Unit 5, a 446 MW hydrogen-capable simple-cycle natural gas combustion turbine facility to be located at the existing Lake Catherine facility site in Hot Spring County, Arkansas.  In December 2024 other parties, including the APSC general staff, filed testimony opposing the resource, although the APSC general staff recognized the capacity need for the resource.  Entergy Arkansas filed testimony in January 2025 further supporting its application, and in February 2025 the opposing parties filed responsive rebuttal testimony continuing to dispute the estimated costs and to dispute that Entergy Arkansas performed a market solicitation sufficient to demonstrate that this resource is the most reasonable option for customers.  Also in February 2025, Entergy Arkansas filed surrebuttal testimony responding to the opposing parties’ testimony.  A hearing was held in March 2025, and in April 2025 the APSC issued an order approving certification of the facility.  The order also provided a presumption of prudence finding with respect to a benchmark project cost, which excluded AFUDC and contingency among other items.  Entergy Arkansas will have the opportunity to later present all actual costs to the APSC for review for a prudence determination, including any costs incremental to the benchmark.  Entergy Arkansas is evaluating potential responses to the APSC order.  Subject to receipt of required regulatory approval and other conditions, the facility is expected to be in service by the end of 2028.

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Entergy Louisiana Additional Generation and Transmission Resources

As discussed in the Form 10-K, in October 2024, Entergy Louisiana filed an application with the LPSC seeking approval of a variety of generation and transmission resources proposed in connection with establishing service to a new data center to be developed by a subsidiary of Meta Platforms, Inc. in north Louisiana, for which an electric service agreement has been executed.  The filing requests LPSC certification of three new combined cycle combustion turbine generation resources totaling 2,262 MW, each of which will be enabled for future carbon capture and storage, a new 500 kV transmission line, and 500 kV substation upgrades.  The application also requests approval to implement a corporate sustainability rider applicable to the new customer.  The corporate sustainability rider contemplates the new customer contributing to the costs of the future addition of 1,500 MW of new solar