# Arkansas Public Service Commission The Arkansas Public Service Commission (APSC) is the state agency that regulates Arkansas's investor-owned electric, gas, water, and telecommunications utilities, including [[Entergy Arkansas]]. It sets the rates utilities may charge, approves new generation through Certificate of Environmental Compatibility and Public Need (CECPN) proceedings, and administers the cost-recovery riders central to this investigation. It is the forum for both APSC dockets ingested in this corpus — the 26-001-U base rate case and the 26-008-TF GAJA rider — and is itself a target of an unanswered FOIA request in the investigation. ## People - [[Doyle Webb]] — Chairman. - [[Justin Tate]] — Commissioner. - [[Katie Anderson]] — Commissioner. - [[Karen Shook]] — Secretary of the Commission (records custody and certificate of service). - [[N. Wesley Hunt]] — Administrative Law Judge; presides over delegated docket proceedings. ## Roles in this corpus - Issued [[Order No. 4 Suspending Entergy's Rates|Order No. 4]] suspending Entergy Arkansas's proposed rates in the base rate case (2026-03-20). - Its [[APSC General Staff]] is an active party in both Entergy dockets, reviewing the filings and filing its own testimony. - The [[Generating Arkansas Jobs Act (GAJA) rider]] operates only on investments the Commission has designated "strategic investments"; the Commission's designation (or non-designation) of a project determines whether its cost may be recovered from ratepayers. ## Notes The APSC's public e-filing system (apps.apsc.arkansas.gov) is the source from which the Docket 26-001-U and 26-008-TF filings were retrieved on 2026-05-22. A FOIA request to the APSC for Docket 26-001-U internal records, GAJA rider analyses, and data-center load communications, filed 2026-05-19, remained unanswered as of 2026-05-22.