# 2026-04 APSC Staff and Attorney General Contest the GAJA Rider On 2026-04-14 both the [[APSC General Staff]] and the [[Office of the Arkansas Attorney General]] filed testimony challenging [[Entergy Arkansas]]'s $110.4 million GAJA rider update. The Staff's witness [[Mark Herring]] argued that the Ironwood combustion turbine had never been designated a "strategic investment" and recommended cutting the requirement by $34.4 million; the Attorney General's witness [[Greg R. Meyer]] argued Entergy had overstated the financing cost charged to customers. On 2026-04-20 Entergy filed [[Entergy Rebuttal Testimony on the GAJA Rider|rebuttal testimony]] by [[Matthew R. Morey]], conceding one correction and rejecting the other. ## Sources - [[APSC Staff Testimony on the GAJA Rider]] — Responsive Testimony of [[Mark Herring]]. - [[Attorney General Testimony on the GAJA Rider]] — Direct Testimony of [[Greg R. Meyer]]. - [[Entergy Rebuttal Testimony on the GAJA Rider]] — Rebuttal Testimony of [[Matthew R. Morey]]. ## Significance The contested round shows the GAJA rider being tested by the two bodies that speak for ratepayers — and shows the limits of that test. Both challenges concern the *amount* of the charge and the *financing method*, not the *allocation*: neither the Commission Staff nor the Attorney General argued that data-center or other large new-load customers should bear the cost of the new generation rather than the general body of ratepayers.