Ozarks Electric Cooperative
Have Fiber, Will Connect, Co-ops Say
Increasing access to broadband is the mission of a $1.66 billion project in Arkansas. read more >
by Kyle Massey -
13 Electric Co-Ops Announce $1.6B Plan to Form New Broadband Provider
The organization, called Diamond State Networks, would provide access to more than 1.25 million rural Arkansans. read more >
Multi-Industry Solar Park Operating in Fayetteville
Ozarks Electric Cooperative and Today’s Power Inc. of North Little Rock dedicated a 2.7-megawatt solar energy plant in Lincoln on Friday. read more >
Schools Go Solar: Sun Lights Path from High School to Jobs
Johnson Controls of Little Rock and Greenbrier schools are on the cusp of a $13 million project to give the district Arkansas’ largest public entity-owned solar plant, new energy efficiency systems and “the cherry on top,” a high school pipeline to solar industry jobs. read more >
by Kyle Massey -
Lincoln Solar Project Partners Cities, Schools, Co-Op Subsidiary
Ozarks Electric Cooperative of Fayetteville and Today’s Power Inc. broke ground Friday on a 2.7-Mw solar power station that will power two northwest Arkansas cities, two school districts and the cooperative’s telecommunications subsidiary, OzarksGo. read more >
by Kyle Massey -
COVID Relief Deal Bolsters Sun Power; Ozarks Electric Announces ‘Solar Park’
Solar power contractors in Arkansas are calling tax incentives and other provisions of the $900 billion COVID-19 relief plan a boost for the renewable power industry. read more >
by Kyle Massey -
Six Arkansas Electric Co-Ops Stringing Broadband
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 >
Arkansas Cooperatives Apply Rural Electrification Model to Internet Access
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 >
Solar Power On the Rise in Arkansas
There’s nothing new under the sun? A quick glance around Arkansas, where solar power projects are popping up all over, shows just the opposite. read more >
by Kyle Massey -
Internet In Northwest Arkansas Feeling Stress
No one is complaining about the population and economic growth in northwest Arkansas, but all that growth is putting strains on the area’s infrastructure. read more >
by Marty Cook -
Today’s Power to Provide Solar Array for Ozarks Electric Cooperative
Today's Power Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Arkansas Electric Cooperatives Inc. of Little Rock, said Friday that it reached an agreement to provide a one-megawatt AC solar array for Ozarks Electric Cooperative of Fayetteville. read more >
Arkansas Solar Projects Get Turn in Limelight
Utilities around the state are turning to solar energy-generation projects as the cost of wrangling the sun’s rays becomes more economical. read more >
by Sean Beherec -
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