November 11, 2024

Notice of Intent to Issue a Request for Proposals
2024 Entergy Louisiana, LLC Combined Cycle Combustion Turbine Resource RFP

Entergy Services, LLC (“ESL”), hereby provides notice to interested parties that it intends to issue a Request for Proposals for Combined-Cycle Combustion Turbine (“CCCT”) Capacity and Energy Resources (the “RFP”) on behalf of Entergy Louisiana, LLC (“ELL”). ESL expects to post draft RFP documents as early as November 2024 and final RFP documents as early as January 2025. RFP documents will be posted to ESL’s website for the RFP, https://spofossil.entergy.com. ESL plans to conduct a Bidder and Technical Conference in November 2024, after the draft RFP documents are posted. Bidder registration for the RFP is anticipated to take place in January 2025. Interested participants should monitor the RFP website for information about the posting of RFP documents, bidder registration, and the Bidder Conference, including the date, time, and location.

The RFP is anticipated to target a minimum of 600 MW (summer rating) up to maximum of 800 MW (summer rating) of capacity, energy, and related products from a single integrated new-build CCCT generation resource. To be eligible to participate in the RFP, the resource would need to be located in LRZ-9.

The resource sought by the RFP will be required to be powered by commercially proven CCGT technology with automatic generation control. The resource would be required to have a quantity of energy resource interconnection service (“ERIS”) and network resource interconnection service (“NRIS”) that meets the threshold for ERIS and NRIS set forth in the Main Body. Operating parameters for any new-build resource will include a maximum net heat rate of 7,000 Btu/kWh (HHV) at full output without supplemental duct-firing (if included as part of the facility) in summer conditions and the ability to operate in baseload and load -following roles consistent with MISO operating requirements for units expected to provide ancillary services.

Bidders in the RFP will be permitted to submit proposals for power purchase agreements (“PPAs”), tolling agreements (“Tolls”), and asset acquisitions, excluding acquisition resources that would be jointly owned or would reasonably require a joint ownership and operation agreement or similar agreement. The delivery term for a PPA or a Toll arising out of the RFP would be a minimum of ten (10) years and a maximum of twenty (20) years. The guaranteed start date for any such PPA or Toll would be no later than December 31, 2030, and the guaranteed closing date of an acquisition arising out of the RFP would be no later than December 31, 2030. ELL will not enter into a PPA, Toll or any related agreement pursuant to this RFP that will or may result in the recognition of a long-term liability on the books of ELL (or any of its Affiliates), whether the long[1]term liability is due to lease accounting, the accounting for a variable interest entity (“VIE”) or derivatives, or any other applicable accounting standard

As part of the RFP, ESL will evaluate a 600-800 MW (summer rating) self-build option at or near ELL’s “Roy S. Nelson” site in the West of the Atchafalaya Basin or WOTAB, and another facility that would be built at or near the site of the “Little Gypsy” generation facilities in the Amite South region of ELL’s service area. The self-build options will be considered and evaluated as an alternative to proposals submitted in the RFP. Additional details regarding the location, scope, and design of the self-build option will be included in the RFP.

Any transaction emerging from the RFP would be subject to ELL’s receipt of all regulatory approvals on terms acceptable to ELL in its sole discretion and other conditions precedent.

The registration process contemplates that Bidders would be required to register each PPA, Toll, or Acquisition agreement proposal with ELL and to pay, for each proposal, in advance of the RFP’s proposal submission period, a proposal submission fee of $5,000.

All dates and time periods referenced in this notice are subject to change. This notice is intended in part to give prospective bidders interested in participating in the RFP advance notice of the RFP. While ELL expects to issue the RFP, by publishing this notice ELL is not assuming, and expressly disclaims, any obligation or commitment to issue the RFP or any other obligation or liability of any kind of ELL that could result from or arise out of this notice.

ELL has engaged Mr. Wayne Oliver of Merrimack Energy Group, Inc. to serve as the Independent Monitor for the RFP. Mr. Oliver can be reached via email at MerrimackIE@merrimackenergy.com. Mr. Samuel DeBose from ESL will serve as Bid Event Coordinator. Questions about this notice or the RFP should be directed to the Bid Event Coordinator of the RFP at ellrfp@entergy.com and to Mr. Oliver at the referenced email address.