# 2025-12 APSC Approves the Google SRC and Rejects the Payment Treatment On **2025-12-04** the Commission issued REDACTED **Order No. 9** in [[psc/docket-25-055-p-special-contract-2026-05-22/_overview|Docket 25-055-P]]: the Entergy Arkansas / [[Altitude Capital, LLC]] (Google) Special Rate Contract is **approved without modification** (RIM tests ≥ 1.0 on all scenarios, Staff-verified) — but **EAL's requested ratemaking treatment of Google's contribution payments is denied** as non-compliant with Ark. Code Ann. § 23-4-1304(x). The Commission held EAL's own witnesses described the payments in language "consistent with the ordinary and plain meaning of a CIAC," found the proposed short-amortization regulatory liability would "benefit EAL and Google, not EAL's other customers," and ordered EAL to refile a treatment that either books the payments as CIAC or amortizes them over the life of Cypress Solar ([[Google SRC Order No. 9 Final Approval and CIAC Ruling]]). *(Retrieved 2026-06-11 — this order predates the FOIA campaign; the wiki's earlier "final order pending" framing was a documented currency error from a truncated 2026-05-22 docket capture. See `log.md` [2026-06-11].)* ## Significance - **T001's dispositive ruling** — see [[T001 - CIAC Classification of Google Generation Payments]] for the split disposition the order produced. - The "customers would benefit from having these contributions treated as a CIAC" finding is the Commission's most direct on-the-record statement that the negotiated structure favored the utility and its hyperscale customer over the ratepayers carrying the [[Generating Arkansas Jobs Act (GAJA) rider|GAJA rider]].