[Husch Blackwell LLP letterhead]
August 15, 2024
Exhibit 5.11
Entergy Texas, Inc.
2107 Research Forest Drive
The Woodlands, Texas 77380
Ladies and Gentlemen:
We have acted as local Texas counsel for Entergy Texas, Inc., a Texas corporation (the “Company”), in connection with the Registration Statement on Form S-3 (Registration Statement No. 333-266624-02) (the “Registration Statement”), relating to, among other things, the offer and sale of $350,000,000 in aggregate principal amount of the Company’s First Mortgage Bonds, 5.55% Series due September 15, 2054 (the “Bonds”). The Bonds have been issued pursuant to the Company’s Indenture, Deed of Trust and Security Agreement, dated as of October 1, 2008, between the Company and The Bank of New York Mellon, as trustee, (the “Trustee”) (the Indenture, Deed of Trust and Security Agreement, as amended and supplemented, including by the officer’s certificate establishing the terms of the Bonds, being hereinafter referred to as the “Mortgage”).
We, as your special Texas counsel, have examined the Registration Statement and the Mortgage, which has been filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission as an exhibit to the Registration Statement. As to questions of fact material to the opinions expressed herein, we have relied upon representations and certifications of officers of the Company and appropriate public officials without independent verification of such matters except as otherwise described herein. We have also examined originals or copies, certified or otherwise identified to our satisfaction, of such documents, corporate records, certificates of public officials, and other instruments as we have deemed necessary for the purposes of rendering this opinion. In such examination, we have assumed the genuineness of all signatures, the authenticity of all documents submitted to us as originals, and the conformity to the originals of the documents submitted to us as certified or photostatic copies and the authenticity of the originals of such latter documents. We have not examined the Bonds, except a specimen thereof, and we have relied upon a certificate of the Trustee as to the authentication and delivery thereof.
Subject to the qualifications hereinafter expressed, we are of the following opinion:
The Bonds are legal, valid and binding obligations of the Company, subject to (i) applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, usury, fraudulent conveyance, receivership, fraudulent transfer, preference, moratorium, reorganization or other similar laws affecting enforcement of mortgagees’ and other creditors’ rights and by general equitable principles (whether considered