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Hydrogen Hyperbole? The Future Will Tell
If knowledge is power, last month’s announcement of a breakthrough in harnessing the potential of nuclear fusion is a most literal example. read more >
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Quest for Solar Modules: Could Arkansas Make Hay?
The state has two solar fields on hold, but CEO of Delta Solar says now is the time for solar power. read more >
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Future of Arkansas Solar Starting to Clear
Recent rulings in a five-year regulatory battle over solar energy policy in Arkansas leave two conclusions as sure as the sun rising in the east: More solar arrays are coming, and the fight over who will build them goes on. read more >
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Niebaum Leaves AAEA, for 2 Good Reasons
Katie Laning Niebaum has left the Arkansas Advanced Energy Association and is set to give birth to identical twin girls any minute. read more >
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Picasolar CEO Doug Hutchings Keeps Solar Manufacturing Current
Douglas Hutchings, CEO of Picasolar, foresees growth in the regional manufacture of solar panels as the market continues to expand. read more >
Net Metering Had Biggest Year as Solar Surged in 2018
Arkansas has its biggest year of solar power installation ever in 2018, and the reason’s no mystery to Bill Halter. read more >
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Arkansas Electrical Engineers Ride a Power Surge
Arkansas’ college programs in electrical engineering are thriving, with enrollment up over the past 10 years in all of the state’s accredited programs. read more >
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Solar Leads Way as Net Metering Has Record Year
More than 350 Arkansans added on-site generation systems in 2017, raising the state's number of net-metering customers from 633 to 988, a 56 percent increase. read more >
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Startups and More Bubble Up from Governor’s Cup
Over nearly two decades of the Donald W. Reynolds Governor’s Cup competition, just over $2 million in prize money has been given to teams of college students with entrepreneurship ideas deemed promising by competition judges. read more >
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Picasolar CEO Doug Hutchings Has Big Reason for Staying in Arkansas
The CEO of Fayetteville startup Picasolar says one anchor is a new capital campaign to raise $3 million for his business, which uses advanced techniques to improve solar cells and reduce their costs. 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 >
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Bill Halter’s Scenic Hill Solar Lands Big First Projects, With L’Oreal
Scenic Hill Solar, led by former Arkansas lieutenant governor Bill Halter, has landed big work for its first projects — the multimillion-dollar job of putting thousands of solar panels on two L'Oreal USA cosmetics factories in North Little Rock and Florence, Kentucky. read more >
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WattGlass of Fayetteville Gets $679K SunShot Grant
WattGlass of Fayetteville gets a $679,413 grant from the U.S. Department of Energy SunShot Initiative to help commercialize its anti-reflective glass coating technology. read more >
Picasolar Dedicates New HQ at UA Tech Park
The 2,300-SF space in the Enterprise Center at the UA tech park will enable Picasolar, an Innovate Arkansas client firm, to reduce the time it takes to produce its patent-pending product. read more >
Picasolar Gets New Funding, Works to Scale Innovative Solar Cell
Fresh off a new round of federal SunShot Initiative funding and a $1.2 million round of equity capital, Fayetteville's Picasolar will spend the next 10 to 12 months scaling its solar cells to meet the industry standard. read more >
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Picasolar Receives $800k DOE Grant for Solar Efficiency
The $800,000 DOE grant will be matched by $200,000 from Picasolar. Douglas Hutchings, CEO of both Picasolar and Silicon Solar Solutions, said the SunShot awards are the most prestigious and competitive grants a solar startup can receive. read more >
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Bill Halter Named to Picasolar Board of Directors
Fayetteville solar startup Picasolar has named former Arkansas lieutenant governor Bill Halter to its board of directors. Halter served as the state's 14th lieutenant governor from 2007 to 2011. read more >
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Fayetteville’s Silicon Solar Solutions Included in DOE SunShot Program
The DOE awards $12 million to fund 17 projects across the country, including startups working on breakthrough technologies in photovoltaics. Silicon Solar of Fayetteville is one of those startups. read more >
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Investor Sees ‘Billion Dollar Plays’ Among Arkansas Startups
Permjot Valia, an international entrepreneur and angel investor, tells the second-annual Arkansas Commercialization Retreat that he sees several Arkansas startups that are capable of "billion dollar plays." read more >
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5 UA Startups on the Cusp of Big Things
Picasolar's 2013 successful run in national business-plan competitions is reminiscent of past University of Arkansas startups. read more >
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