# 2026-06 Entergy Files Response to APSC Order No. 6 (GAJA Rider) On **2026-06-01 at 4:00 p.m.**, Entergy Arkansas filed its **response to [[Order No. 6 Legislative Council Report|Order No. 6]]** in [[psc/docket-26-008-tf-2026-05-22/_overview|APSC Docket 26-008-TF]] (the Generating Arkansas Jobs Act annual-update / [[Ironwood]] proceeding) — document 76 on the docket index. This is the report Order No. 6 directed Entergy to provide to the Legislative Council by 2026-06-01, "assuming Commission approval of the most recent Annual Update filing." It is the **only filing in any of the tracked data-center dockets dated after the wiki's 2026-05-29 knowledge cutoff** (confirmed against the live APSC e-filing index on 2026-06-03). ## Sources - [APSC Docket 26-008-TF docket index, archived 2026-06-03](../../web%20archive/2026-06-03/apps.apsc.arkansas.gov/docket-26-008-tf.md) — "4:00:00 PM 6/1/2026 76. Entergy Arkansas, LLC submits its response to Order No. 6. KA." - [[Order No. 6 Legislative Council Report]] — the directive being answered (the seven required report contents). - [[Entergy Order No. 6 Response]] — the retrieved Doc 76 (Tier-1, `raw/psc/docket-26-008-tf-order6-response-2026-06-03/`); see the [[docket-26-008-tf-order6-response-2026-06-03/_overview|production overview]]. ## What happened Per [[2026-05 APSC Order No. 6 Legislative Council Reporting Directive|Order No. 6]] (issued 2026-05-12 by the full Commission under Ark. Code § 23-4-1305(2)(E)), Entergy was to provide a Legislative Council report covering the generation-portfolio mix, per-strategic-investment cost/capacity detail (including "any publicly disclosed contributions toward the strategic Investment"), job-creation data, customer arrears and disconnections, an affordability narrative, and projected bill impacts. Entergy filed its response (Doc 76, signed by [[J. David Palmer]]) on 2026-06-01. **It has now been retrieved and ingested** — see [[Entergy Order No. 6 Response]]. The headline answer: for all three strategic investments (Ironwood, Jefferson, Arkansas Cypress), Entergy reports **"Publicly disclosed contributions: None"** — no publicly disclosed third-party offset to the new generation recovered from ratepayers. The response also discloses per-plant Tier-1 cost figures (Ironwood $700.2M est. / $542.3M benchmark / $33.89M 2026 GAJA revenue requirement), **~41 permanent jobs** across the three ~$3.9B plants, and 2025 affordability data (**94,893 customer disconnections**; 116,789/month in arrears). ## Significance - **Procedural milestone, not the merits ruling.** Order No. 6 was procedural; as of 2026-06-03 **no Commission order has ruled on the two disputed questions** — whether [[Ironwood]] qualifies as a Strategic Investment (see [[T002 - Ironwood Strategic Investment Designation Requirement]]) and the cost-of-debt methodology. The 2026-04-29 evidentiary hearing record (Order No. 5, the hearing transcript) and now this Order No. 6 response are complete; the substantive decision remains pending. - **Possible disclosure hook.** Order No. 6's requirement to report "publicly disclosed contributions toward the strategic Investment" is the rare statutory channel that could surface data-center / large-load contribution figures — but only those already public elsewhere. Entergy's 06-01 response answers that hook directly: **"None"** for all three plants — confirming at Tier-1 that no *publicly disclosed* data-center or large-load contribution offsets the socialized new-generation cost (the one caveat being that any confidential customer payment would sit in the sealed Filing Requirement 16). A direct Tier-1 corroboration of [[Who Pays for Entergy's New Generation]]. ## Open follow-ups - **Document 76 retrieved + ingested** (2026-06-03) → [[Entergy Order No. 6 Response]]. The OLS binary-retrieval method (`olsv2/viewdoc/pdfview.asp?document=<docket>_<doc>_<part>.pdf`) is now established and can pull other docket PDFs into `raw/psc/`. - Watch 26-008-TF for the substantive approval order on the GAJA rider / Ironwood inclusion ([[T002 - Ironwood Strategic Investment Designation Requirement|T002]]).