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 7
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 variance is primarily due to:

•an increase in Entergy Arkansas’s formula rate plan rates effective January 2025;

•a decrease in Entergy Louisiana’s formula rate plan revenues for a two month period beginning in September 2025, resulting from earnings above the authorized return on common equity for the 2024 test year;

•an increase in Entergy Mississippi’s formula rate plan rates resulting from an increase in interim facilities rate adjustment revenues effective January 2025; and

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•the implementation of the distribution cost recovery factor rider effective with the first billing cycle in October 2024 and increases in the distribution cost recovery factor rider effective in December 2024 and June 2025, each at Entergy Texas.

See Note 2 to the financial statements herein and in the Form 10-K for discussion of the regulatory proceedings discussed above.

The effect of sale of natural gas distribution businesses variance represents the decrease in operating revenues resulting from the absence of natural gas revenues at Entergy Louisiana and Entergy New Orleans in third quarter 2025 as a result of the sale of the Entergy Louisiana and Entergy New Orleans natural gas distribution businesses on July 1, 2025.  See Note 13 to the financial statements herein for discussion of the sale of the Entergy Louisiana and Entergy New Orleans natural gas distribution businesses on July 1, 2025.

Total electric energy sales for Utility for the three months ended September 30, 2025 and 2024 are as follows:

20252024% Change(GWh)Residential11,692 11,519 2 Commercial8,499 8,394 1 Industrial16,255 15,150 7 Governmental678 684 (1)Total retail37,124 35,747 4 Sales for resale4,079 3,727 9 Total41,203 39,474 4 

See Note 12 to the financial statements herein for additional discussion of operating revenues.

Other Income Statement Items

Utility

Other operation and maintenance expenses increased from $714 million for the third quarter 2024 to $764 million for the third quarter 2025 primarily due to:

•an increase of $36 million in power delivery expenses primarily due to higher vegetation maintenance costs;

•an increase of $13 million in compensation and benefits costs primarily due to higher incentive-based accruals in 2025 as compared to