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SREA Testimony in Entergy Arkansas Rate Case Highlights Importance of Good Planning to Prevent Higher Costs

SREA Testimony in Entergy Arkansas Rate Case Highlights Importance of Good Planning to Prevent Higher Costs

SREA has intervened and provided testimony in Entergy Arkansas' first full rate case at the Arkansas Public Service Commission in a decade Expert witness testimony higlights that Entergy's Integrated...
What’s the Generating Arkansas Jobs Act, and Why is it on My Electric Bill?

What’s the Generating Arkansas Jobs Act, and Why is it on My Electric Bill?

Arkansas is part of a national trend where lawmaking bodies are influencing or changing the relationship between utilities and the regulatory bodies in their states. The Generating Arkansas Jobs...
Entergy's 2026 Rate Case Could Have Lasting Impacts on Arkansas Electric Bills

Entergy's 2026 Rate Case Could Have Lasting Impacts on Arkansas Electric Bills

The PSC is considering Entergy’s first major rate case in 11 years, giving the public a rare look at the company’s finances and cash flows. Entergy’s advertised “about 1%”...

Spring Storm Season is Here, Arkansas - Are You Prepared?

Ask anyone in Arkansas and they'll tell you - their energy bill has gone up recently. In fact, across the US, the average residential energy bill in 2025 was roughly 30% higher than in 2021. But there are big differences from...

What's a Rate Case and How Can I Get Involved?

You may have heard or seen in the news that Entergy Arkansas filed their application for a rate case in February. The Arkansas Public Service Commission has not - as of this writing - established a procedural schedule or hearing on this case...

Arkansas Business dives into CWIP, cost to Entergy's ratepayers in Jefferson Power Station docket

Arkansas Business dives into the Jefferson Power Station (JPS) docket this week, with two notable discussions: CWIP, and the project's impact on Entergy Arkansas' ratepayers. This is a docket - Arkansas Public Service Commission Docket 25-047-U - that lends itself to questions,...

Digging into Entergy Arkansas's application to approve Jefferson Power Station

In a case that sits at the intersection of regulatory policy, customer cost, and energy reliability, parties and their expert witnesses are challenging Entergy Arkansas’ (EAL) bid to approve the Jefferson Power Station (JPS). The core contention: does JPS meet the...

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