by Kyle Massey 1/29/2018 12:00 am
After putting nearly nine years and more than $100 million of investors’ money into a $2.5 billion power transmission project across Oklahoma and Arkansas, the electric dream of Michael Skelly has shorted out.
by Arkansas Business Staff 11/20/2017 12:00 am
Russell Quattlebaum has been promoted to director of the project management office and customer services at Southwest Power Pool in Little Rock, and Jim Gunnell has been promoted to director of performance and process optimization in SPP’s IT organization.
by Gwen Moritz 10/16/2017 12:00 am
Oncologists from Central Arkansas Radiation Therapy Institute again dominate the list of the state’s highest-paid nonprofit employees, occupying four of the top five positions with total compensation of $1.57 million to $2.3 million in the fiscal year that ended June 30, 2016.
by Arkansas Business Staff 9/11/2017 12:00 am
Terry Rhoades has been promoted to project management office manager at Southwest Power Pool of Little Rock.
by Kyle Massey 7/25/2017 4:33 pm
Southwest Power Pool is ending its role as a regional enforcer of standards for reliability in the bulk power grid, agreeing to eliminate the SPP Regional Entity no later than the end of 2018.
by Arkansas Business Staff 5/22/2017 12:00 am
Libii Fairhead, Jarrod Hale and Michael Hansberry have joined Baldwin & Shell Construction Co.
by Arkansas Business Staff 5/15/2017 12:00 am
Pat Fitts has been promoted to assistant deputy director at the Arkansas Game & Fish Commission.
by Kyle Massey 5/3/2017 2:17 pm
A California power system monitoring veteran has hired on as the new executive director of Southwest Power Pool's Market Monitoring Unit in Little Rock.
by Kyle Massey 4/17/2017 12:00 am
Double-digit growth has been a constant companion for Advanced Cabling Systems LLC during its first 20 years of business.
by Arkansas Business Staff 1/30/2017 12:00 am
Kandi Hughes has been hired as an attorney at Southwest Power Pool of Little Rock in the company’s corporate legal department.
by Kyle Massey 12/16/2016 12:00 pm
The Southwest Power Pool, a wartime baby that had growing pains through the atomic age and matured into one of the nation's largest coordinators of the electric grid, turned 75 years old today.
by Gwen Moritz 11/28/2016 12:00 am
Nonprofits compete for the same private-sector labor as for-profit companies, but even those of us who seek out salary data have to be impressed with just how much medical professionals are being paid.
by Gwen Moritz 11/21/2016 12:00 am
Of the 24 nonprofit employees whose total compensation — salary plus reported benefits — exceeded $1 million, 22 are employed in the health care field.
by Arkansas Business Staff 4/11/2016 12:00 am
Nick Brown, president and CEO of Southwest Power Pool in Little Rock, has received the 2016 Business Achievement Award from Beta Gamma Sigma International Honor Society.
by Arkansas Business Staff 1/26/2016 11:01 am
Graham Edwards and Bruce Scherr were elected to the SPP board at a meeting in Oklahoma City. The appointments are effective immediately, the company said, and expand the board to nine members.
by Arkansas Business Staff 1/15/2016 10:34 am
Southwest Power Pool will work with the U.S. Department of Energy on its Grid Modernization Initiative to improve the reliability and security of the nation's electricity delivery system, the company announced.
by Arkansas Business Staff 10/13/2015 11:15 am
Southwest Power Pool announced Tuesday that it had reached a deal with MISO to ensure compensation for use of the SPP system.
by Arkansas Business Staff 10/1/2015 4:09 pm
Southwest Power Pool officially has absorbed an integrated transmission system that covers several midwestern and western U.S. states, the regional transmission organization said.
by Steve Patterson 8/17/2015 12:00 am
While the state’s unlucky timing in launching its bid to become a wind component manufacturing hub hurt the prospects of large component manufacturers like Nordex and Mitsubishi, the growth of the wind power sector nationwide continues to benefit the Arkansas economy.
by Mark Carter 7/27/2015 2:19 pm
Southwest Power Pool says the proposed federal Clean Power Plan will result in higher energy costs if instituted on a state-by-state basis.
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