Entergy is actively pursuing solar energy projects, with several facilities achieving commercial operation in 2024 and others under development. This aligns with the company's commitment to increase carbon-free energy capacity.

Entergy is actively seeking to provide electric service to new data centers, which require significant investments in generation and transmission infrastructure. Success in this area could drive future growth.

Entergy is planning to sell its natural gas distribution businesses in New Orleans and Louisiana. This strategic decision will allow Entergy to focus on its core electric utility operations.

The Vacherie Facility and the St. Jacques Facility originally had estimated in service dates in 2025, but are now expected to be no sooner than 2027. This indicates potential delays in project execution.

Entergy Louisiana and Entergy Texas are implementing grid resilience plans to improve the reliability of their transmission and distribution systems. These plans involve significant investments and are aimed at mitigating the impact of future storms.

Entergy is actively managing its capital structure, including issuing new debt and repaying existing debt. The company also repurchases shares and pays dividends to shareholders.

Entergy's business is subject to extensive regulatory oversight, and changes in regulations or regulatory decisions could materially affect the company's financial performance. This includes risks related to cost recovery, rate structures, and environmental regulations.

Entergy's service territory is prone to hurricanes and other severe weather events, which can cause significant damage to infrastructure and disrupt service. The company's ability to recover from these events is critical to its financial stability.

Entergy's infrastructure is vulnerable to cyber attacks, which could disrupt operations and compromise sensitive data. The company is investing in cybersecurity measures to mitigate this risk.

Entergy faces competition from other companies offering products and services to Entergy's customers based on new or emerging technologies or alternative sources of generation.

Entergy's ability to attract and retain talented management, directors, and employees with specialized skills, institutional knowledge, capacity, and abilities, including the ability to effectively execute on Entergy's growth strategy is key to its competitive position.

An increase in industrial usage primarily due to an increase in demand from large industrial customers, primarily in the petroleum refining and chlor-alkali industries and from new customers in the technology industry is a key driver of Entergy's business.

A decrease of $54 million in power delivery expenses primarily due to lower vegetation maintenance costs indicates improved operational efficiency.

A decrease of $15 million in nuclear generation expenses primarily due to a lower scope of work performed in 2024 as compared to 2023 and lower nuclear labor costs indicates improved operational efficiency.

A decrease of $12 million in non-nuclear generation expenses primarily due to a lower scope of work, including during plant outages, performed in 2024 as compared to 2023 indicates improved operational efficiency.

A decrease of $10 million in information technology costs primarily due to enhancements made in 2023 to certain information technology systems indicates Entergy is implementing new technologies.

Entergy is exploring alternative financing sources, which could result in increases or decreases in the capital expenditure estimates given above.

A decrease of $9 million in customer service center support costs primarily due to lower contract costs indicates Entergy is using new technologies to reduce costs.

Planned construction and capital investments refer to amounts Entergy plans to spend on routine capital projects that are necessary to support reliability of its service, equipment, or systems and to support normal customer growth.

Entergy Corporation currently expects to issue approximately $4.7 billion of equity through 2028, which it may issue under its at the market equity distribution program or otherwise, with approximately $1.4 billion already contracted under forward sale agreements as of December 31, 2024.

Entergy Texas is considering alternative financing approaches for the Legend Power Station and plans to pursue the financing option that is in the best interest of its customers.

Entergy's ability to effectively formulate and implement plans to increase its carbon-free energy capacity and to reduce its carbon emission rate and aggregate carbon emissions, including its commitment to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 and the related increasing investment in renewable power generation sources and carbon capture and storage is a key ESG initiative.

Entergy's ability to effectively formulate and implement plans to increase its carbon-free energy capacity and to reduce its carbon emission rate and aggregate carbon emissions, including its commitment to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 and the related increasing investment in renewable power generation sources and carbon capture and storage is a key ESG initiative.

Entergy's ability to effectively formulate and implement plans to increase its carbon-free energy capacity and to reduce its carbon emission rate and aggregate carbon emissions, including its commitment to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 and the related increasing investment in renewable power generation sources and carbon capture and storage is a key ESG initiative.

Entergy and its subsidiaries' ability to successfully execute on their business strategies, including their ability to complete strategic transactions that they may undertake, and their ability to meet the rapidly growing demand for electricity, including from hyperscale data center and other large customers, and to manage the impacts of growth in demand for electricity on customers and Entergy's business is a key factor.

The economic climate, and particularly economic conditions in the Utility service area and events and circumstances that could influence economic conditions in those areas, including power prices and inflation, and the risk that anticipated load growth may not materialize is a key factor.

The effects of a catastrophe, pandemic (or other health-related event), or a global or geopolitical event such as the military activities between Russia and Ukraine, or Israel and Hamas, including resultant economic and societal disruptions; fuel procurement disruptions; volatility in the capital markets (and any related increased cost of capital or any inability to access the capital markets or draw on available bank credit facilities); reduced demand for electricity, particularly from commercial and industrial customers; increased or unrecoverable costs; supply chain, vendor, and contractor disruptions, including as a result of trade-related sanctions; delays in completion of capital or other construction projects, maintenance, and other operations activities, including prolonged or delayed outages; impacts to Entergy's workforce availability, health, or safety; increased cybersecurity risks as a result of many employees telecommuting and/or working partially remotely; increased late or uncollectible customer payments; regulatory delays; executive orders affecting, or increased regulation of, Entergy's business; changes in credit ratings or outlooks as a result of any of the foregoing; or other adverse impacts on Entergy's ability to execute on its business strategies and initiatives or, more generally, on Entergy's results of operations, financial condition, and liquidity is a key factor.