Does Arkansas charge a demand charge on EV charging?

Yes — the modeled Entergy Arkansas LPS rate bills about $29 per kilowatt-month all-in on the monthly 15-minute peak, seasonal, with no time-of-use window. A trailing twelve-month minimum clause exists but never binds at a steady billed peak. No EV-specific host rate offers relief.

What happens to the modeled rate in 2027?

Entergy Arkansas's pending rate case proposes new rates effective January 2027, with the ~49% formula rider rolling into base rates and resetting. The direction for any single class is not knowable until the order; the library re-derives the row from the compliance sheets when they exist.

Does Arkansas tax public EV charging per kilowatt-hour?

No. Arkansas's EV-specific fiscal instrument is the annual vehicle registration fee ($200 for a BEV), paid by the driver. Charging providers are statutorily not public utilities, and no per-kWh charging tax was in force or pending as of July 2026.

ForgeAsset / Supercharger ROI / Arkansas

Tesla Supercharger ROI in Arkansas

Arkansas prices like Louisiana in miniature: Entergy Arkansas carries vintage base-rate sheets and recovers its accumulated revenue requirement through a Formula Rate Plan rider that adds about 49% on top, plus a dated stack of per-kW and per-kWh riders and an annually reset fuel factor. The modeled row folds the whole 2026 stack — including the June 2026 grid-adjustment rider the base sheets do not show — together with Little Rock's franchise fee and the 8.625% sales tax on electricity. The architecture has an expiration date: a pending rate case rolls the rider into new base rates effective January 2027, and the row re-derives at the order.

Model a Arkansas site

What makes Arkansas economics distinct

The filed base rate is two-thirds of the story

Entergy Arkansas's LPS demand rate prints $18.22 per kilowatt in summer on the base sheet, but the Formula Rate Plan rider multiplies base billings by about 1.49, and per-kW riders add and subtract from there. The modeled all-in figure is about $29 per kilowatt-month after the Little Rock franchise and sales-tax folds — a number no single filed sheet shows, assembled from the utility's own 2026-stamped rider attachments.

A hard re-derive date: January 2027

Docket 26-001-U proposes new base rates effective with the first billing cycle of January 2027, with the accumulated ~49% formula rider resetting toward zero as it rolls into base rates. Hearings run November 2026. The modeled row carries the calendar-2026 architecture and re-derives at the compliance sheets — the same current-rates precedent as other mid-case states in the set.

A local sales-tax rebate most buyers can claim

Arkansas rebates the city and county share of sales tax on business purchases above $2,500 per invoice — Supercharger cabinets qualify on their face, which would pull the effective hardware rate from Little Rock's 8.625% toward the 6.5% state floor. The model carries the unclaimed rate as the conservative default and treats the rebate as documented upside.

No demand-charge relief, but a light tax stack

No Arkansas utility files an EV-exclusive host rate — Entergy's EV schedules are a driver-side price at utility-owned chargers and a make-ready rider. What Arkansas offers instead is a cheap entity stack: a flat $150 annual franchise tax, no charging excise, no gross-receipts tax, and business personal property near 1.4% of value per year in Little Rock.

Utilities and tariffs modeled in Arkansas

Utility & tariff	Energy	Demand
Entergy Arkansas LPS	3.4¢/kWh flat	$29.03/kW of monthly peak

Rates are digit-verified against each utility's own filed sheets and update within two weeks of any revision. Full derivations are on the methodology page.

Arkansas tax profile

Sales tax on hardware: 8.63%
Business personal property tax: 1.4% of equipment value (example rate)
Clean-fuels credit: no program
Per-kWh charging excise: none

Arkansas tax defaults applied: no clean-fuels credit program exists in Arkansas (the LCFS revenue line is $0), and LLC costs use the flat $150 annual franchise tax. Sales tax uses Little Rock's 8.625% combined rate on hardware — Arkansas rebates the local portion on business invoices above $2,500, so the effective rate can approach the 6.5% state floor for a purchaser who files the refunds; the unclaimed rate is the conservative default and the field is editable. Installation labor at a newly constructed site is untaxed; an install into an existing facility is a taxable service under GR-9.17, and the labor share is editable for a retrofit. Business personal property assesses at 20% of value times local millage — about 1.4% per year in Little Rock. The electricity sales tax and Little Rock's franchise fee are already inside the modeled utility rate. Entergy Arkansas's pending rate case resets its rider architecture in January 2027; the modeled row re-derives at the order.

Arkansas programs and incentives

NEVI (federal, ARDOT-administered)

Federal corridor DC fast-charging funding administered by the Arkansas Department of Transportation under approved FY2022–2026 deployment plans; round status under the federal pause-and-restart varies, and a specific award enters the model through the grant inputs.

ADEQ Level 2 EVSE rebate

Arkansas's state rebate program covers Level 2 equipment only — no state DCFC rebate exists. The Council on Future Mobility has recommended fast-charging tax credits; the recommendation is not enacted law.

Arkansas charging market

Arkansas carries roughly eight Supercharger sites, strung mainly along I-40 — Fort Smith, Ozark, Clarksville, Russellville, Little Rock, Forrest City — with northwest Arkansas served separately. Coverage is Entergy Arkansas territory, anchored on Little Rock. North Little Rock and Sherwood run the state's largest municipal utility, Fort Smith is OG&E, and Fayetteville is SWEPCO with co-op and municipal patchwork around it — addresses there see a named-utility notice rather than a wrong auto-selection.

Arkansas Supercharger ROI — questions

Does Arkansas charge a demand charge on EV charging?: Yes — the modeled Entergy Arkansas LPS rate bills about $29 per kilowatt-month all-in on the monthly 15-minute peak, seasonal, with no time-of-use window. A trailing twelve-month minimum clause exists but never binds at a steady billed peak. No EV-specific host rate offers relief.
What happens to the modeled rate in 2027?: Entergy Arkansas's pending rate case proposes new rates effective January 2027, with the ~49% formula rider rolling into base rates and resetting. The direction for any single class is not knowable until the order; the library re-derives the row from the compliance sheets when they exist.
Does Arkansas tax public EV charging per kilowatt-hour?: No. Arkansas's EV-specific fiscal instrument is the annual vehicle registration fee ($200 for a BEV), paid by the driver. Charging providers are statutorily not public utilities, and no per-kWh charging tax was in force or pending as of July 2026.

Sources

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