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 4
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 of $204.7 million in advance payments related to customer agreements in 2025, which are recorded as current liabilities and included within changes in other working capital accounts; and

•the receipt of $146.4 million in payments related to the sale of nuclear production tax credits in third quarter 2025.  See Note 3 to the financial statements in the Form 10-K and see Note 10 to the financial statements herein for discussion of the nuclear production tax credits.

The increase was partially offset by:

•higher fuel and purchased power payments and the timing of recovery of fuel and purchased power costs.  See Note 2 to the financial statements herein and in the Form 10-K for a discussion of fuel and purchased power cost recovery;

•an increase of $96.9 million in interest paid;

•the timing of payments to vendors;

•an increase of $26 million in spending on nuclear refueling outages in 2025 as compared to 2024; and

•$21 million received in third quarter 2024 related to the wind up of the Nelson Industrial Steam Company (NISCO) partnership.  See Note 9 to the financial statements in the Form 10-K for a discussion of the NISCO partnership.

Investing Activities

Net cash flow used in investing activities increased $1,139.9 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2025 compared to the nine months ended September 30, 2024 primarily due to:

•an increase of $505 million in non-nuclear generation construction expenditures primarily due to higher spending on the Franklin Farms Power Station Units 1 and 2 project and the Sterlington Facility solar project;

•an increase of $267.1 million in distribution construction expenditures primarily due to increased investment in the resilience of the distribution system;

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•an increase of $237.2 million in transmission construction expenditures primarily due to higher capital expenditures as a result of increased development in Entergy Louisiana’s service area, higher spending on the Amite South transmission projects, and increased spending on various other transmission projects in 2025;

•an increase of $111.6 million in nuclear construction expenditures primarily due to increased spending on various nuclear projects in 2025;

•an increase in cash used of $110.7 million as a result of fluctuations in nuclear fuel activity due to variations from year to year in the timing and pricing of fuel reload requirements, materials and services