# Jefferson Power Station Jefferson Power Station is a new natural-gas generating facility of [[Entergy Arkansas]], one of three resources whose CWIP cost flows into the 2026 [[Generating Arkansas Jobs Act (GAJA) rider]]. ## How it appears in the corpus - **CECPN docket:** [[psc/docket-25-047-u-jefferson-2026-05-22/_overview|25-047-U]]. Application filed *after* Act 373; the Commission granted the CECPN and explicitly designated the resource a "Strategic Investment" — distinguishing it from [[Ironwood]] (whose pre-Act 373 application is the basis of the inclusion dispute). Per [[Jefferson Order No. 5 SREA Limited Intervention|Order No. 5]], this is **the first Arkansas CECPN docket explicitly establishing a generation facility as a Strategic Investment under Act 373**. - The **25-047-U Order No. 6** is cited in [[Order No. 2 Interim Protective Order]] by [[N. Wesley Hunt]] for its "transparency concerns and findings" on minimizing unnecessary redactions. - A curated subset of the docket (the redacted Application, [[Bethel Direct on JPS Industrial Load Growth|Bethel's direct on industrial load growth]], intervention/procedural Orders 1–5) was ingested on 2026-05-22; see the production [[psc/docket-25-047-u-jefferson-2026-05-22/_overview|Jefferson docket overview]]. Order No. 6 (the substantive transparency order), the full substantive testimony, and the hearing transcript remain not retrieved. ## What is known, and what is not, from the public record | Field | Value in corpus | Source | |---|---|---| | Resource type | Combined-Cycle Combustion Turbine (CCCT) — natural gas | [[Jefferson REDACTED Application]] | | CECPN docket | 25-047-U | [[GAJA Rider 2026 Annual Update]] | | Strategic-Investment designation | **Designated** by Commission in the CECPN order; first CECPN docket to establish a generation facility as a Strategic Investment under Act 373 | [[Jefferson Order No. 5 SREA Limited Intervention]] | | Projected in-service date | December 2029 | [[Jefferson REDACTED Application]] | | Installed capacity (MW) | **Not in corpus** (sealed in REDACTED Application; in substantive testimony not yet retrieved) | — | | Total cost | **$1.60B estimated** against a **$1.512B Commission benchmark** (Tier-1, per Entergy's Order No. 6 report, Doc 76) | [[Entergy Order No. 6 Response]] | | Stated justification | Industrial / data-center load growth, framed by EAL's Public Affairs Director — the public record's most explicit attempt at a CCCT-via-data-center justification | [[Bethel Direct on JPS Industrial Load Growth]] | | Site location | White Bluff generating station site, near Redfield, Jefferson County | [[Jefferson REDACTED Application]] | ## Stakeholders [[Entergy Arkansas]] (owner); [[Arkansas Public Service Commission]] (approval and designation); all retail customers (rider payers). ## Notes **A customer's ESA is contractually pegged to Jefferson's in-service date (Tier-1, 2026-06-12).** AVAIO's [[AVAIO Tier 4 Equivalent Email to the Commerce Secretary|"Tier IV equivalent" email]] states that under its executed Entergy ESA, AVAIO "is required to curtail (to a 0MW load) when MISO enters an Emergency Alert Level 2 (EEA-2)… **until Jefferson Power Station comes online in December 2029**" (`260305-email.pdf`, p. 3) — matching the docketed projected in-service date and showing Entergy bridging its pre-Jefferson capacity gap with mandatory data-center curtailment ("Without this provision, Entergy would not have supplied any power"). Because the CECPN was filed after Act 373 and the Commission expressly designated it a Strategic Investment, Jefferson's eligibility for GAJA Rider recovery is not in dispute in [[psc/docket-26-008-tf-2026-05-22/_overview|Docket 26-008-TF]]. The 2026-05-22 ingest of Docket 25-047-U surfaced the data-center-load-growth narrative via [[Bethel Direct on JPS Industrial Load Growth|Bethel's direct testimony]]; the installed capacity and approved cost remain sealed or in substantive testimony not yet retrieved.