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Entergy Corporation and Subsidiaries
DEFINITIONS
Certainabbreviationsoracronymsusedinthetextandnotesaredenedbelow:
Abbreviation or Acronym Term
AEEC Arkansas Electric Energy Consumers
AFUDC Allowance for Funds Used During Construction
ALJ AdministrativeLawJudge
ANO 1 and 2 Units 1 and 2 of Arkansas Nuclear One Steam Electric Generating Station
(nuclear),ownedbyEntergyArkansas
APSC Arkansas Public Service Commission
Board Board of Directors of Entergy Corporation
Cajun Cajun Electric Power Cooperative, Inc.
Capacity factor Actual plant output divided by maximum potential plant output for the period
CDBG Community Development Block Grant
City Council or Council Council of the City of New Orleans, Louisiana
CPI-U Consumer Price Index - Urban
DOE United States Department of Energy
Entergy Entergy Corporation and its direct and indirect subsidiaries
Entergy Corporation Entergy Corporation, a Delaware corporation
EntergyGulfStates,Inc. PredecessorcompanyfornancialreportingpurposestoEntergyGulfStates
Louisiana that included the assets and business operations of both Entergy Gulf
States Louisiana and Entergy Texas
Entergy Gulf States Louisiana Entergy Gulf States Louisiana, L.L.C., a company formally created as part of the
jurisdictional separation of Entergy Gulf States, Inc. and the successor company
toEntergyGulfStates,Inc.fornancialreportingpurposes.Thetermisalso
used to refer to the Louisiana jurisdictional business of Entergy Gulf States, Inc.,
as the context requires.
Entergy-Koch A joint venture equally owned by subsidiaries of Entergy and Koch Industries,
Inc. Entergy-Koch’s pipeline and trading businesses were sold in 2004.
Entergy Texas Entergy Texas, Inc., a company formally created as part of the jurisdictional
separation of Entergy Gulf States, Inc. The term is also used to refer to the Texas
jurisdictional business of Entergy Gulf States, Inc., as the context requires.
EPA United States Environmental Protection Agency
ERCOT Electric Reliability Council of Texas
FASB Financial Accounting Standards Board
FERC Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
FirmLD Transactionthatrequiresreceiptordeliveryofenergyataspecieddelivery
point(usuallyatamarkethubnotassociatedwithaspecicasset)orsettles
nanciallyonnotionalquantities;ifapartyfailstodeliverorreceiveenergy,the
defaultingpartymustcompensatetheotherpartyasspeciedinthecontract
GrandGulf UnitNo.1ofGrandGulfSteamElectricGeneratingStation(nuclear),90%
owned or leased by System Energy
GWh Gigawatt-hour(s),whichequalsonemillionkilowatt-hours
Independence IndependenceSteamElectricStation(coal),owned16%byEntergyArkansas,
25% by Entergy Mississippi, and 7% by Entergy Power
IRS Internal Revenue Service
ISO Independent System Operator
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