?LEGAL NOTICE
Notice is hereby given, pursuant to Article IV, Section 21(D)(1) of the Louisiana Constitution and Louisiana Public Service Commission General Order 7/1/2019 (Docket R-34738), that on December 30, 2024, Entergy Louisiana, LLC (“ELL”), a public utility providing retail electric and gas service in various parishes throughout the State of Louisiana, filed with the Louisiana Public Service Commission (“LPSC”) an Application (“Application”) for recovery in rates of costs related to Hurricane Francine.
The Application requests that the LPSC, among other things: (1) find the costs incurred by ELL in restoring serving and repairing its facilities in the wake of Hurricane Francine, totaling $183,572,459, to be reasonable and necessary and, therefore, eligible for recovery from customers; (2) specify and approve the functionalization of the costs incurred by ELL in responding to Hurricane Francine; (3) as to the distribution-related capital costs incurred by ELL in responding to Hurricane Francine (the “Francine Distribution Capital Costs”), approve ELL’s authority to recover those costs pursuant to Section 3.A.1 or, alternatively, through Section 3.C of the Formula Rate Plan Rider Schedule FRP (“Rider FRP”), approve the recovery of the functionalized Francine Distribution Capital Costs pursuant to the terms (except the cap) of the Distribution Recovery Mechanism (“DRM”) of Rider FRP, and vote to take up, and approve, at the LPSC’s February 2025 Business and Executive Session recovery by ELL of the Francine Distribution Capital Costs through Rider FRP on an interim basis, subject to refund and true-up, with such interim rate adjustment beginning with the first billing cycle for March 2025 and pending such time as the LPSC completes its full prudency review and the LPSC’s Order becomes final; (4) authorize ELL to recover carrying costs on the Francine Distribution Capital Costs from the date on which the storm costs were incurred until the date ELL begins recovering its storm costs through rates; (5) as to the operations and maintenance costs incurred by ELL in responding to Hurricane Francine and the referenced carrying costs, affirm ELL is authorized to withdraw $30,000,000 from ELL’s previously funded storm escrow for those costs; and (6) grant such other relief to which ELL shows itself to be entitled.
The estimated bill effect of the costs sought by ELL in the Application for responding to Hurricane Francine is an estimated increase of $0.80 per month for a residential customer that receives 1,000 kWh of electric service per month, with an annualized typical monthly bill for such a customer increasing from $127.44 per month to an estimated $128.24 per month.
For questions and comments regarding ELL’s filing, please call the LPSC toll free at (800) 256-2397. Additionally, the filing, including its attachments may be viewed in the Records Division of the LPSC at the following address:
Records Division
602 N. 5th Street, 12th Floor
Baton Rouge,
Louisiana 70802
Telephone: (225) 342-3157
ENTERGY LOUISIANA, LLC
RUN: Jan. 9 (J 7)
Cost of Notice: $42.00