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![SPP’s coordination center in Little Rock. It oversees the grid in a 14-state region. [PHOTO provided]](https://arkansasbusiness.wppcdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/SPP_Coordination_Center_01_-_APPROVED_FOR_EXTERNAL_DISTRIBUTION_opt-300x194.jpg)
SPP Proposes Fast-Track Plan to Address Looming Power Generation Shortfall
Utilities across the region have been clamoring for more “dispatchable” electricity, power that can be delivered immediately. read more >
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Bentonville Cybersecurity Startup Bastazo Raises $1M, Plans Early 2025 Product Launch
The company is in growth mode after completing a highly selective accelerator and residency program in San Francisco. read more >
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![A Standard Lithium employee at its demonstration plant in El Dorado. [Madison Ogle] ]](https://arkansasbusiness.wppcdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/2023.7.20_Standard_Lithium-20_opt-300x194.jpg)
$225M Federal Grant Closes for Building Arkansas Lithium Plant
David Park, CEO of Standard Lithium, called the grant a major milestone for a project nearly 10 years in the making. read more >
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Jonesboro Gets $138K Federal Energy Grant
The city will use the funds to purchase LED lighting to enhance roadway and pedestrian safety while improving energy efficiency. read more >
Arkansas Dams Get $3.2M for Upgrades and Repairs
The largest grant went to Entergy Arkansas for safety improvements at Remmel Dam in Malvern. read more >
Heat Pump Maker Hydro-Temp Gets $10.9M Grant for Expansion
The company teamed up with Energy Catalyst of Watervliet, New York, on a proposed co-development to increase their annual heat pump production ten-fold. read more >
UA Little Rock Expands Efforts to Strengthen Cybersecurity in Energy Sector
The project is supported by a $1 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy. read more >
Sweating the Small Stuff At UA Little Rock
Inside several labs at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, physics professors Gregory Guisbiers and Tansel Karabacak conduct quantum research, an evolving field that analyzes the properties and behaviors of subatomic particles. read more >
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UA Researcher Gets $750K Grant to Advance EV Battery Tech
The research aims to improve the energy density, lifetime and efficiency of lithium-ion batteries and reduce their cost. read more >
New U of A Research Center Aims to Transform Semiconductor Manufacturing
The center is funded by a $10.3 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy. read more >
Energy Department Offers Community Grants for Embracing Nuclear Power
$1.6 million is available over the next three years. read more >
by Kyle Massey -
Arkansas Teams Up With Louisiana and Oklahoma in Hydrogen Hub Chase
The states are pitching the U.S. Department of Energy on a plan to use hydrogen as fuel and manufacturing feedstock. read more >
Green Power Climbs Globally as Biden Also Hails Renewables
The International Renewable Energy Agency says that despite the economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, worldwide renewable energy capacity grew by more than 260 megawatts in 2020, up more than 50% from the year before. read more >
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UA Researchers Get $750K Grant
University of Arkansas physicists recently received a $750,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to research "topological quantum materials," which are unusual in that they have a robustness of electrical properties regardless of temperature shifts or changes in structural form. read more >
Following the Money Fueling Opposition to Wind Catcher
While a single wind project won’t seal the fate of America’s energy markets, resistance to Southwestern Electric Power Co.’s Wind Catcher project comes in conjunction with support for coal and nuclear power at the highest levels of American government. read more >
by Kyle Massey -
Plains & Eastern Clean Line Appears Doomed In Arkansas
After putting nearly nine years and more than $100 million of investors’ money into a $2.5 billion power transmission project across Oklahoma and Arkansas, the electric dream of Michael Skelly has shorted out. read more >
by Kyle Massey -
Solar Power Generating More Electric Power Jobs
Solar power now employs the largest share of workers in the electric power generation sector in the United States, according to a report from the U.S. Department of Energy. read more >
UA Professor Receives $3.2M In Grants for Energy Projects
A University of Arkansas professor has received $3.2 million from the U.S. Department of Energy for projects that will accelerate the development of a new class of efficient, lightweight and reliable power converters. read more >
Two Fayetteville Energy Projects Net $4M In Grants
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy recently awarded $30 million in grants to 21 projects nationwide, as part of the Creating Innovative and Reliable Circuits Using Inventive Topologies and Semiconductors (CIRCUITS) program. read more >
UA Little Rock Professor Awarded $500K For Fuel Cell Research
A University of Arkansas at Little Rock professor has received $500,000 to develop high-performance, cost-effective transportation fuel cells. read more >
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