Company: EAI
Filing Date: 2025-10-31
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0000065984-25-000132
Chunk: 13

Company: ENTERGY ARKANSAS, LLC
Filing Date: 2025-10-31
Form: 10-Q
Item: Item 3
Chunk 13
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 of Jefferson Power Station, an approximately 754 MW natural gas-fired combined cycle combustion turbine facility to be located in Jefferson County, Arkansas.  In September 2025 other parties, including the APSC general staff, filed testimony opposing the resource pending further information, although the APSC general staff recognized the capacity need for the resource and that Entergy Arkansas had satisfied the statutory requirements for a certificate of environmental compatibility and public need.  Entergy Arkansas filed testimony further supporting its application in September and October 2025.  A hearing was held in October 2025, and an APSC decision is expected by January 2026.  Entergy Arkansas proposes to recover the costs of constructing Jefferson Power Station through the Generating Arkansas Jobs Act rider, which was approved by the APSC in October 2025.  Subject to receipt of required regulatory approval and other conditions, the facility is expected to be in service by the end of 2029.

Special Rate Contract and Arkansas Cypress Solar

In September 2025, Entergy Arkansas filed an application with the APSC seeking approval of a long-term special rate contract between Altitude, LLC, a subsidiary of Alphabet, Inc. (Google) and Entergy Arkansas for the sale of electricity to a new large-scale data center in West Memphis, Arkansas.  A procedural schedule was established with a hearing to be held in November 2025.  In October 2025 the APSC general staff filed testimony finding that based on its evaluation of Entergy Arkansas’s application and the results of the ratepayer impact measure test, the special rate contract meets the requirements of the APSC’s promotional practice rules and is in the public interest.  No other parties filed testimony.

Also in September 2025, Entergy Arkansas filed an application with the APSC seeking a certificate of environmental compatibility and public need for the construction and operation of the Arkansas Cypress Solar facility, a planned 600 MW solar photovoltaic array with a 350 MW battery energy storage system and associated transmission facilities interconnecting at Entergy Arkansas’s White Bluff substation.  Entergy Arkansas is seeking public interest and prudence findings from the APSC to construct the Arkansas Cypress Solar facility in furtherance of its long-term special rate contract with Google.  A procedural schedule has been established with a hearing to be held in December 2025.  In October 2025 the APSC general staff filed responsive testimony opposing the project cost and seeking additional information.  Subsequently, the APSC general staff submitted supplemental testimony to update its initial