PSC approves Entergy rate rider changes; pulls PMR14 for follow-up on customer-specific project costs

The Mississippi Public Service Commission on Jan. 2025 approved six Entergy Mississippi rate-rider updates and agreed to consider additional information on a seventh after commissioners raised questions about whether costs tied to a large commercial customer could be borne by other ratepayers.

Staff told the commission that Entergy’s combined filings — covering its MISO cost and revenue rider (MISO-2), grid modernization cost adjustment (GMR1), the expiration of a corporate restructuring credit (Schedule RC1), unit power cost recovery (UPC4), net energy metering (NEM2) and the company’s fuel adjustment clause (ECR4) — would change individual rider factors and, when combined, increase a 1,000-kilowatt-hour residential bill by about $3.29 per month beginning with February billing. The PMR14 filing, which seeks to recover power-management and certain natural-gas hedging costs, was pulled for separate discussion and follow-up.

Why it matters: Commissioners said they wanted assurance that costs specifically attributable to serving a large commercial customer would not be shifted to other ratepayers. Entergy representatives told the commission some project costs in PMR14 could be related to network projects that “could serve that customer” and asked to provide a confidential status update on ongoing discussions. Commissioners approved the other filings after staff recommended approval and then approved the PMR14 filing with a request that Entergy…