Rob Roedel

Facing a lack of internet access in rural Arkansas, electric cooperatives had the existing infrastructure and interest in customer satisfaction to lead the charge in broadband deployment. read more >

Arkansas Electric Cooperatives Inc. of Little Rock confirmed that it has eliminated 16 positions. read more >

She previously was SVP of government-guaranteed lending. read more >

New solar plants will help offset the loss of the two coal plants, which are set to close in 2028 and 2030. read more >

Electric cooperative members are now free from burdensome constraints to solar power net metering since a judge’s ruling in May, Arkansas Advanced Energy Association Director Lauren Waldrip says. read more >

Arkansas utility companies worked swiftly to restore services in the aftermath of the March 31 tornadoes. read more >

At the peak of the storms, the state’s 17 local electric distribution providers collectively had about 10,000 members without power. read more >

Though most suggestions are for homeowners, Arkansas electric cooperatives and Entergy Arkansas also had specific suggestions for businesses large and small, and those suggestions rely largely on common sense. read more >

Public Service Commission Chairman Ted Thomas says some utilities’ resistance to pro-solar policies had risen to the level of defiance. read more >

The Arkansas Public Service Commission and lawmakers address the statewide dispute over plugging in. read more >

Min Wui has joined Cromwell Architects Engineers of Little Rock as an architectural designer. read more >

Last year’s gas and grid shortcomings echoed this month: Instruments froze, output plunged, and burn-offs spewed greenhouse gases into the sky. read more >

A bill filed in the state House would change the rate of compensation for solar power fed onto the grid. Proponents say it eliminates an unfair cost shift; opponents say it threatens Arkansas' growing solar industry. 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 >

Net-metering decision, with caveats, keeps credit equal to retail power rate. read more >

The Arkansas Public Service Commission ended four years of wrangling over pricing rules for solar power Monday, pleasing the solar installation industry with a ruling that keeps compensation high for power put back onto the electric grid by residences and small business power systems of less than 1 megawatt. read more >

As the novel coronavirus pandemic disrupts industries and the entire national economy, Vernon “Buddy” Hasten of the Arkansas Electric Cooperatives Corp. knows just how vital his top job is: keeping the lights on for 500,000 homes and businesses, not to mention hospitals and police stations. read more >

Retiring the first time as CEO of Petit Jean Electric, Bill Conine was pulled back in February to be interim president and CEO of Arkansas Electric Cooperative Corp. and Arkansas Electric Cooperatives Inc. after Duane Highley departed for a job in Colorado. read more >

As cleanup continues after one of the worst hurricanes in Florida Panhandle history, line crews from Entergy Arkansas and the state’s electric cooperatives are helping to restore power after more than 2.3 million customers lost electricity in Florida and Georgia. read more >

Entergy Arkansas and the state's electric power cooperatives are offering a pre-emptive hand as Hurricane Florence bears down on the coast of North Carolina. read more >