Arkansas Electric Cooperatives

Arkansas’ net-metering credits to utility customers for solar energy they add to the grid will change drastically for systems connected after Sept. 31. read more >

The Arkansas House voted last Thursday to pass the legislation cutting utility credits to solar power-generating customers basically in half. read more >

The amended bill will essentially halve the credit that utilities pay to customers — both residential and commercial — who generate their own power. read more >

Todd Kuhn and Rob Seay have both been with Cromwell around 30 years. In addition, Cromwell has added eight stockholders of the firm. read more >

Arkansas’ electric cooperatives are delivering broadband access to rural and remote corners of the state just as they delivered electricity to the rugged backwoods in the 20th century. (See Have […] read more >

Scott Foushee of Newport and Rusty Pendergraft of Texarkana join the board of directors Today’s Power Inc. of North Little Rock, a renewable energy company specializing in small utility scale solar power plants. read more >

As utilities and authorities investigate why millions of Texans were left without power last week, Arkansas power experts are looking for lessons in the debacle, and explaining how Arkansas and other states largely avoided Texas’ fate. read more >

Two of Arkansas' leading electric utility executives say the state is "not out of the woods yet" after limited cold-weather blackouts mandated in emergency orders by the two regional transmission organizations based in Little Rock. read more >

President Trump's decision to withdraw from the Paris climate accord drew support and criticism from predictable quarters. But the bottom line for Arkansas businesses may be that the decision changes little here. read more >

After commissioning a five-acre sun farm for First Electric Cooperative in Benton on a bright and warm Wednesday morning, Chris Burnley said he's been on a "solar coaster" ride. read more >

Ouida Cox, editor of the monthly magazine of Arkansas Electric Cooperatives Inc. for more than four decades, plans to retire Jan. 3. read more >

CEO and President Duane Highley, who joined Electric Cooperatives of Arkansas in November 2011, talks to Arkansas Business about how changing energy sources are affecting his business. read more >

Maria Smedley has been promoted to vice president of human resources at the Arkansas Electric Cooperative Corp. and Arkansas Electric Cooperatives Inc. in Little Rock. read more >

Michael Henderson is one of a trio of men who oversee the three arms of Electric Cooperatives of Arkansas: Arkansas Electric Cooperative Corp., a utility group that builds power plants and generates electricity; Arkansas Electric Cooperatives Inc., a utility that serves five states; and Electric Research & Manufacturing Corp., which produces and sells single- and triple-phase transformers. read more >