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Entergy’s utility subsidiaries operate power plants and the networks that deliver electricity in parts of Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas, including New Orleans. Households and businesses provide most of its revenue through electricity bills based on usage and approved tariffs. Residential customers are its largest revenue group, while industrial customers consume the most electricity. Its generation relies mainly on natural gas and nuclear power. Entergy sold its small Louisiana and New Orleans gas-distribution businesses in July 2025.
Regulators set the rates Entergy can charge, allowing recovery of approved service costs and a reasonable return on investment. Fuel and purchased-power costs generally pass through to customer bills rather than add to profit. The business therefore depends on regulatory approval of both rates and investment recovery; regulators can delay or deny recovery of costs.
Entergy is building or planning additional generation and transmission infrastructure for data centers associated with Meta, Amazon Web Services and Alphabet’s Google. Meta-related funding includes direct customer contributions and electricity-service payments; the AWS agreements provide for recovery through service payments. These investments depend on a small number of customers’ continuing power demand and project completion. Early-termination payments provide some protection but do not guarantee full recovery of the investment.
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Southern Company and Entergy share exposure to Southeastern electricity demand and regulated returns on power plants and grids: both generate and deliver power to paying customers, including in Mississippi. Southern’s Mississippi Power business offers a nearby comparison for electricity sales and regulated investment.
American Electric Power and Entergy both depend on electricity demand and regulators allowing infrastructure costs to be recovered from customers; both generate, deliver and sell power. AEP’s integrated utility results provide a comparison for how power-plant and grid spending translates into earnings under cost-based rates.
Duke Energy and Entergy both earn returns by generating and delivering electricity at state-approved customer rates designed to cover costs and reward invested capital. Watch Duke’s regulated electricity business rather than treating Ohio energy sales as equivalent: there it earns retail margin on delivery, not the electricity itself.
Dominion Energy and Entergy share a growth driver: data centers buying electricity create demand for new power plants and transmission in their regulated Southeastern systems. Dominion’s data-center demand and power-system expansion are the comparison to watch for Entergy.
Meta Platforms’ north-Louisiana data center ties Entergy to a large electricity customer: Entergy Louisiana is developing 2,262 MW of generation and related transmission, funded through customer contributions and electricity payments. Meta earns mainly from advertisers buying app placements; watch changes to this data center’s power demand and payment protections, including the credit protections questioned in regulatory proceedings.
Amazon’s AWS-invested data-center campuses make Entergy Mississippi dependent on large-customer electricity payments to recover the generation and transmission investment needed to serve them. Amazon sells goods to consumers and reports AWS separately; for Entergy, watch the Mississippi campuses and their service agreements, which also cover incremental investment costs if a customer leaves early.
Alphabet ties Entergy Arkansas to long-term electricity sales through its Altitude subsidiary’s new West Memphis data center, linked to the proposed Arkansas Cypress Solar project; Google’s services earn mainly from advertisers. Watch the treatment of Google’s upfront payments: regulators approved the contract in December 2025 but rejected the requested rate treatment, maintaining that decision in January 2026.
OGE Energy’s OG&E and Entergy Arkansas both generate and deliver electricity to Arkansas customers at cost-based rates, with mechanisms to collect fuel and purchased-power costs through bills. OG&E’s Arkansas energy-cost recovery is a useful comparison for how Entergy recovers those costs rather than absorbing them.
CenterPoint Energy and Entergy both depend on Texas utility regulation to recover electric-network investment through customer rates. CenterPoint’s Houston Electric delivers power rather than generating it, making its transmission and distribution business the closer comparison for Entergy Texas’s grid-cost recovery.
Ameren and Entergy share exposure to regional transmission and power-resource needs through regulated electric systems in MISO, the market Entergy uses to dispatch generation and buy power. Ameren supplies electricity to customers in Missouri and Illinois; its separately reported transmission business offers a comparison for regional grid investment.
Xcel Energy and Entergy both need power-plant and delivery-network investment to grow their integrated electricity businesses, which sell power to retail and wholesale customers. Xcel’s transmission expansion offers a comparison for the infrastructure needed to support reliable service and a diverse generation mix.
Entergy pays Primoris Services Corporation to build, engineer and maintain utility infrastructure, tying Primoris’s business to execution of Entergy’s electric investment. Watch Primoris’s Utilities construction and maintenance work on transmission and distribution systems for a view of the work behind grid spending.
Centuri Holdings helps Entergy keep its electric network reliable and expand it, earning revenue from utilities for construction and maintenance services. Its electric utility service businesses are the relevant watchpoint for network replacement, upgrades and expansion—not a measure of Entergy’s electricity sales.
Meta Platforms, Inc. earningsMETA
Meta Platforms' report can offer clues about its data-center investment and demand, which matter to the case for Entergy Louisiana's generation and transmission build-out for a large customer.
Watch for Meta Platforms' disclosures about data-center or AI infrastructure investment and demand; advertising revenue is not a measure of Louisiana electricity use. Continued investment and demand would support the business case for the large customer's expansion, while weaker signals would make the load behind Entergy's added generation and transmission less certain. Meta Platforms' report will not establish local electricity use or contract payment protections, so the conclusion is about the strength of the demand case, not Entergy's cost recovery.
CenterPoint Energy, Inc. earningsCNP
CenterPoint Energy's Houston Electric delivers power rather than generating it, so its report offers a view of how Texas utilities recover grid investment through customer rates, as Entergy Texas also must.
Watch whether CenterPoint Energy's grid investment is matched by regulatory progress in recovering those costs. More investment with timely rate recovery would show Texas utilities can pass delivery-network costs into customer bills; investment that rises ahead of delayed or restricted recovery would leave utilities funding costs for longer. CenterPoint's results are not Entergy Texas's, but they help show the Texas grid-cost recovery environment they share.
Alphabet Inc. earningsGOOG
Alphabet's report can offer clues about its data-center investment and demand, relevant to the long-term electricity contract between Entergy Arkansas and its West Memphis data center.
Watch Alphabet's disclosures about data-center or AI infrastructure investment and demand; overall advertising growth is not a measure of West Memphis electricity use. Stronger investment and demand would support the business case for the site's long-term power purchases, while weaker signals would make Entergy Arkansas's expected customer load less certain. Arkansas regulators' treatment of upfront payments is a separate issue that Alphabet's report cannot settle; the conclusion is whether customer-demand signals support the long-term sales case.
OGE Energy Corp. earningsOGE
OGE Energy's OG&E operates a utility in Arkansas and recovers fuel and purchased-power costs, offering a comparison for the cost-recovery mechanisms Entergy Arkansas also uses.
Read OGE Energy's fuel and purchased-power costs alongside the pace at which its bills recover them. Rising costs with timely recovery would show that the rate mechanism passes these expenses to customers; delayed or limited recovery can leave a utility funding them in the meantime, pressuring cash flow and earnings. OGE is not Entergy, so the conclusion is whether a comparable Arkansas recovery mechanism is keeping pace with costs.
Amazon.Com Inc earningsAMZN
Amazon's report can offer clues about AWS demand and data-center investment, relevant to the case for Entergy Mississippi's generation and transmission build-out for AWS-invested campuses.
Watch Amazon's disclosures about AWS demand and data-center investment; retail sales are not a measure of electricity use at the Mississippi campuses. Continued growth in AWS demand and investment would support the need for Entergy Mississippi's added generation and transmission capacity; weaker signals would make that load less certain. The agreements address incremental investment costs if a customer leaves early, but Amazon's report will not show local load or whether the terms cover every cost. The conclusion is whether customer demand still supports the investment.
Primoris Services Corporation earningsPRIM
Primoris Services Corporation builds and maintains utility infrastructure for Entergy, and its report can show the contractor workload and execution behind grid investment.
Watch Primoris Services Corporation's utility-work volume and project execution. Steady work and sound execution would suggest contractors can support grid construction and maintenance; weaker workload or execution could point to labor, schedule, or cost pressures that slow utility projects. The report does not establish the status of a specific Entergy project; the conclusion is whether the contractor environment can support Entergy's grid investment plans.
Entergy Corporation earningsThis company
Entergy earns most of its Utility income by selling electricity, and this report will show whether customer use and approved rates leave more income after the costs of generating and delivering power.
Read retail electricity sales alongside Utility net income, and consider fuel and purchased-power costs and how quickly the company recovers them. If sales and net income both rise, demand and rates are keeping pace with the cost of serving customers; if sales rise but income does not keep up, higher costs or delayed recovery are squeezing earnings. The conclusion is whether added electricity use is translating into Utility profit for Entergy.
Ameren Corporation earningsAEE
Ameren's MISO-region transmission business offers a view of regional grid investment and resource needs, which matter to Entergy as another utility that relies on MISO to dispatch generation and buy power.
Watch Ameren's transmission investment and MISO-related needs or costs, alongside whether those costs can be recovered through regulation. Rising investment and needs with recovery keeping pace would show support for expanding the regional grid; if system needs raise costs faster than recovery, utilities and customers may face more pressure. Ameren's transmission business is not the same as Entergy's overall business; the conclusion is whether the MISO grid Entergy relies on is expanding and whether its costs are being handled.
Industrial Production MoM (Oct)
Industrial production tracks how much factories, mines and utilities produce; stronger activity can lift electricity sales to Entergy’s industrial customers in metals, refining and chemicals, while weaker activity can reduce them.
If industrial output and capacity use rise, that points to stronger activity that may increase electricity demand from Entergy’s metals, refining and chemical customers; if they fall, those customers may use less electricity, weighing on Utility sales.
