# Entergy Arkansas Entergy Arkansas, LLC ("EAL") is the regulated, vertically integrated electric utility serving roughly 735,000 customers across 63 of Arkansas's 75 counties. A subsidiary of Entergy Corporation, it is the utility at the center of the investigation's "who pays for the new generation" question: it owns the generation being built, files the rate case and the rider that recover that cost from customers, and holds the electric service agreements with the hyperscale data centers. ## People - [[Laura R. Landreaux]] — President and Chief Executive Officer. - [[J. David Palmer]] — Vice President, Regulatory Affairs. - [[Matthew S. Klucher]], [[Caroline McNeal]], [[Matthew R. Morey]] — rate and regulatory witnesses (employed by Entergy Services, LLC, the Entergy service subsidiary, testifying on EAL's behalf). ## Roles in this corpus - **Base rate case (APSC Docket 26-001-U).** On 2026-02-27 Entergy Arkansas filed its first base rate case in ten years, seeking a 1.92% / roughly $44.6 million increase. Its [[Class Cost of Service Study]] allocates costs across four conventional rate classes and excludes [[Special rate contract|special-contract]] customers from the allocation. See the [[psc/docket-26-001-u-2026-05-22/_overview|Docket 26-001-U overview]]. - **GAJA rider (APSC Docket 26-008-TF).** Entergy Arkansas's [[Generating Arkansas Jobs Act (GAJA) rider]] 2026 annual update charges all 738,836 retail customers — filed at $110.4 million a year, approved 2026-06-04 by [[Order No. 7 Approving the GAJA Annual Update]] at **$109,977,691** ($5.74/month residential at 1,000 kWh) — a return on $1.24 billion of construction-in-progress for three new power plants (the Ironwood and Jefferson gas plants and the Arkansas Cypress solar-and-battery project). See the [[GAJA Rider 2026 Annual Update]] and the [[psc/docket-26-008-tf-2026-05-22/_overview|Docket 26-008-TF overview]]. - **Data-center electric service.** In the rate case, CEO [[Laura R. Landreaux]] testified that Entergy Arkansas partnered with the State to secure the Google (West Memphis) and AVAIO (Pulaski County) data centers, that the projects "provide more than $1.7 billion in savings for EAL customers," and that it developed an electric service agreement with [[Altitude Capital, LLC]], "Google's subsidiary" ([[Entergy CEO Direct Testimony]], pp. 11–12). - **Substation on the Project Pyramid site.** The Crittenden County property card for parcel 33059 — a 16.64-acre tract split from the main Project Pyramid parcel — carries the assessor note *"TC 11/17/25 ENTERGY SUBSTATION ON THIS PROPERTY"* ([[Project Pyramid Site Property Record Card]], PRC.pdf p. 9). - **AVAIO Project Leo site infrastructure.** The [[county-pulaski/project-leo-2026-05-22/_overview|Pulaski County planning file]] for the AVAIO "Project Leo" data center — the Pulaski County site named in CEO Landreaux's testimony — shows an existing *"100' Arkansas Power & Light Company easement"* (Arkansas Power & Light is Entergy Arkansas's predecessor name) crossing the 296-acre tract, and the site plan reserves large on-site areas for two electrical substations ([[AVAIO Project Leo Site Plan and County Review]]). ## Corporate and litigation record (Tier 2, added 2026-06-04) **Parent's SEC disclosure on data-center risk.** Entergy Corporation's FY2025 Form 10-K — the combined filing in which Entergy Arkansas is a registrant subsidiary — adds a data-center-specific risk factor: "The success of certain Utility operating companies' investments in new generation and transmission assets to support large-scale data centers depends on a limited number of such customers, the continued demand for electricity to power data centers and the successful completion of the associated generation and transmission projects" ([Entergy 10-K FY2025, Tier 2](../../web%20archive/2026-06-04/www.sec.gov/entergy-10-k-fy2025.md), Item 1A). The same filing's segment data shows Utility "expenditures for additions to long-lived assets" rising from $5.97 billion (2024) to **$8.21 billion (2025)** — the financial footprint of the generation-and-transmission buildout. The 10-K does not name the Arkansas sites or customers. **Cost-allocation litigation — *Entergy Arkansas, LLC v. Doyle Webb* (8th Cir. 2024).** In a dispute over who bears a ~$135 million FERC refund, EAL petitioned the APSC in 2019 to recover the cost from its retail customers; the APSC denied the request and ordered a refund to ratepayers instead. EAL sued APSC Chairman [[Doyle Webb]] and Commissioners [[Katie Anderson]] and [[Justin Tate]] (all in their official capacities); the Eighth Circuit affirmed for the APSC, endorsing the holding that the "APSC has the power to ensure that public utilities, including [Entergy Arkansas], can only recover costs that are reasonably necessary in providing utility service to ratepayers" ([*Entergy Arkansas, LLC v. Doyle Webb*, 122 F.4th 705 (8th Cir. 2024), Tier 2](../../web%20archive/2026-06-04/www.courtlistener.com/entergy-arkansas-v-webb-8th-cir-2024.md)). The three commissioners who prevailed are the same commissioners now deciding the GAJA Rider and Google SRC dockets — a documented instance of the APSC declining to pass utility costs through to retail ratepayers, against which the pending data-center cost-allocation rulings can be measured. ## Notes The APSC docket record — twelve-plus docket productions and retrievals ingested between 2026-05-22 and 2026-06-10 — anchors Entergy Arkansas's role in the investigation: it recovers the cost of its new generation from all ratepayers through the GAJA rider, while the data-center contracts it says offset that cost are confidential [[Special rate contract|special rate contracts]] kept outside the public cost-of-service record. The April 1, 2025 City of Conway data-center memorandum of understanding designates Entergy Arkansas as the high-voltage (230 kV and up) electricity supplier for the [[The Conway Data Center Project|Conway / Forgelight Ventures data center]], with [[Conway Corporation]] supplying medium-voltage service.