Big Arkansas customers challenge Entergy on deal to buy Ouachita plant in Louisiana

摘要

A coalition of Arkansas electricity consumers has asked federal energy regulators to modify the terms of Entergy Arkansas' recent agreement to buy the Ouachita power plant in Louisiana. The coalition says the purchase, already approved by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, might violate an agreement that stipulates how the Entergy system is run, and would lead to Arkansas customers subsidizing Louisiana customers. The group, Arkansas Electric Energy Customers, wants FERC to determine that Entergy Arkansas' share of the plant would be an Entergy system resource and that the company's share of the plant is an "Arkansas-only resource." The coalition's members are industrial and agricultural concerns in the state that buy large amounts of electricity from Entergy, according to the August 22 complaint, which says the transaction might violate the Entergy system agreement governing coordination of generation and transmission, purchase and sale of power and allocation of costs and benefits among the company's units.