# 2026-02 Entergy Arkansas Files Its Base Rate Case On 2026-02-27 [[Entergy Arkansas]] filed APSC Docket 26-001-U, an application to change its retail electric rates — its first base rate case in ten years. The company sought an overall increase of 1.92%, about $44.6 million, supported by the direct testimony of seventeen witnesses. The filing was statutorily required by that date under Ark. Code Ann. § 23-4-1208(b)(1)(B), at the end of a ten-year formula-rate period. ## Sources - [[Class Cost of Service Study]] — the Direct Testimony of [[Matthew S. Klucher]], allocating the increase across customer classes. - [[Entergy CEO Direct Testimony]] — the Direct Testimony of [[Laura R. Landreaux]], the company-wide overview. - [[Proposed Rate Schedule Revisions]] — the Direct Testimony of [[Caroline McNeal]], cataloging the tariff changes. - See the [[psc/docket-26-001-u-2026-05-22/_overview|Docket 26-001-U production overview]]. ## Significance The base rate case is the proceeding that resets Entergy Arkansas's conventional rates. For the investigation it is significant both for what it does and what it omits: it allocates costs across four conventional rate classes with no data-center class, and its cost-of-service study excludes [[Special rate contract|special-contract]] customers. The CEO's testimony also makes the corpus's first regulatory-filing claim about the data centers — that the Google and AVAIO projects save customers more than $1.7 billion.