Entergy filed its first rate case (26-001-U) in ten years with the Public Service Commission seeking to add the approximately $650,000,000 in Formula Rate Plan riders they have been receiving over the preceding ten years into their base rates, for which they will generate a return, and increase the base rate another approximately $45,000,000. This additional rate increase is primarily being added to the rates for small commercial consumers in Entergy’s filings.  The Association intends to move to intervene in this Docket to represent the interests of Advanced Energy in Arkansas.

Additionally, Entergy also will file a Generate Arkansas Jobs Act Rider update in a separate Docket intending to create a rider charge for the Construction Work in Progress too be added to existing bills. The Association is a party to this Docket. 

Finally, the Public Service Commission has opened a Docket to investigate Entergy’s treatment of production tax credits and their impact on the rate base for Entergy’s consumers as well as other investment tax credits and their treatment for the rate base of Arkansas consumers. The Association has moved to intervene in this Docket to represent the interests of Advanced Energy in Arkansas.