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70
Clear vision, clear progress.
2015 Integrated Report
• changes in inflation and interest rates;
• the effect of litigation and government investigations or proceedings;
• changes in technology, including with respect to new, developing or alternative sources of generation;
• the effects of threatened or actual terrorism, cyberattacks or data security breaches, including
increased security costs, accidents and war or a catastrophic event such as a nuclear accident
or a natural gas pipeline explosion;
• Entergy’s ability to attract and retain talented management and directors;
• changes in accounting standards and corporate governance;
• declines in the market prices of marketable securities and resulting funding requirements and the
effects on benefit costs for Entergy’s defined benefit pension and other postretirement benefit plans;
• future wage and employee benefit costs, including changes in discount rates and returns on benefit
plan assets;
• changes in decommissioning trust fund values or earnings or in the timing of, requirements for,
or cost to decommission nuclear plant sites;
• the implementation of the shutdown of Pilgrim and FitzPatrick and the related decommissioning
of those plants and Vermont Yankee;
• the effectiveness of Entergy’s risk management policies and procedures and the ability and
willingness of its counterparties to satisfy their financial and performance commitments;
• factors that could lead to impairment of long-lived assets and
• the ability to successfully complete merger, acquisition or divestiture plans, regulatory or other
limitations imposed as a result of a merger, acquisition or divestiture and the success of the business
following a merger, acquisition or divestiture.
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