Mel Coleman

He's a 14-year veteran of the utility who has served as vice president of member services since 2016.  read more >

The removal of Jeremiah Sloan as CEO of Craighead Electric Cooperative remains something of a mystery. read more >

High fuel costs, government regulation and shutdowns of fossil-fuel generation plants are strangling the electric cooperatives’ ability to supply affordable and dependable power to 1.2 million cooperative members in Arkansas. 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 >

Longtime North Arkansas Electric Cooperative CEO Mel Coleman has been elected to the board of North Little Rock solar energy provider Today’s Power Inc., along with Blytheville financial planner Diana Holmes. read more >

The day after Earth Day was warm and mild in Fulton County as Today's Power Inc. and North Arkansas Electric Cooperative Inc. saluted a solar future by dedicating the cooperative's first solar generation station in its 80-year history. read more >

Six electric cooperatives in Arkansas are bringing high-speed broadband internet access to thousands of their members and plan to offer it to all of their members within the next four to six years. read more >

King Coal isn’t dead, but it’s being dethroned as the top fuel source for creating electric power in Arkansas. read more >

Today’s Power Inc. of Little Rock continued its string of successes with small utility-scale solar projects Monday, breaking ground on a 1-megawatt solar array for North Arkansas Electric Cooperative near the co-op’s headquarters in Salem (Fulton County). read more >

Entergy finds a firm to help it take down the Harvey Couch Power Plant, and Mel Coleman, CEO of North Arkansas Electric Cooperative in Mountain Home, gets a key award. read more >

Ouachita Electric in Camden, North Arkansas Electric in Salem (Fulton County) and Ozarks Electric in Fayetteville plan to deliver internet via fiber optic cable to their members in the next few months. read more >

Today's push to expand broadband internet access is very much like the country's effort to bring electric power to rural areas during the Great Depression and World War II, electric company executive Mel Coleman says. read more >

Mel Coleman, CEO of North Arkansas Electric Cooperative in Salem, has been elected president of the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association board of directors, the organization announced Monday. read more >

If "climate change" is a phrase you simply can't stomach, consider the benefit of acknowledging the increasing frequency of extreme weather events. Consider that it's time to prepare. read more >