# Jefferson Order No. 5 — SREA Limited Intervention The Commission's 9-page order on Southern Renewable Energy Association's (SREA) Petition to Intervene. **The single most important order in this docket for the "Strategic Investment" framework**: it states explicitly that "this Docket is the first proceeding before the Commission where EAL is explicitly seeking to establish a generation facility (and associated transmission infrastructure) as a strategic investment eligible for rider recovery pursuant to Act 373." ## Key takeaways - **First Act 373 Strategic Investment CECPN.** "This Docket is the first proceeding before the Commission where EAL is explicitly seeking to establish a generation facility (and associated transmission infrastructure) as a strategic investment eligible for rider recovery pursuant to Act 373." This frames JPS as the precedent-setting filing for Act 373's substantive standards. - **SREA granted limited intervention.** The Commission found SREA's Petition compliant with RPP Rule 4.02(a)(1)(A), (C), (D), and (E), but **declined full intervention** because SREA did not provide a membership list as required by RPP 3.09(f). Grants intervention "for the purpose of representing itself as a regional trade organization with experience in generation and transmission facilities that meet the definition of strategic investments under Act 373." - **The substantive RFP / IRP objection.** SREA's Petition raised core substantive challenges: (a) EAL's apparent exclusion of battery energy storage resources as viable alternatives or supplements to JPS; (b) EAL's removal of the Stakeholder Committee Report from the 2024 IRP exhibit (Direct Exhibit KF-1); (c) the assertion that "JPS was 'added manually' [to the IRP] by EAL"; (d) the question of whether "adding a massive baseload gas plant to EAL's already gas-centric resource portfolio 'will enable EAL to expand the diversity of its resource portfolio.'" - The Commission "has previously ruled that a desire to advocate for a certain policy position alone does not meet RPP 4.02's intervention standard" — but here grants the limited intervention given Act 373's first-impression status. - Signed by [[Doyle Webb]], [[Justin Tate]], [[Katie Anderson]] (the full Commission, dated 2025-08-27). ## People and orgs mentioned - Southern Renewable Energy Association (SREA) — non-profit trade group; petitioner - [[Entergy Arkansas]] — respondent - [[APSC General Staff]] — responded - [[Doyle Webb]], [[Justin Tate]], [[Katie Anderson]] — signatories ## Concepts invoked - [[Strategic Investment]] under Act 373 — first explicit CECPN proceeding to seek this designation - IRP / Resource Planning Guidelines - Competitive procurement / RFPs ## Cross-references See the [[psc/docket-25-047-u-jefferson-2026-05-22/_overview|Docket 25-047-U production overview]] for context. ## Open questions / follow-ups - SREA's substantive objections to the JPS IRP justification — and how the Commission ultimately treated them in the final CECPN order — are not in this order. The final order is in the unretrieved portion of the docket.