PSC Disapproves Entergy's Revised Solar Power Offering
Entergy Arkansas suffered another regulatory setback Friday in its bid to offer discount solar power to local governments, schools and non-taxed entities like water systems. read more >
Entergy Arkansas suffered another regulatory setback Friday in its bid to offer discount solar power to local governments, schools and non-taxed entities like water systems. read more >
Three Arkansas solar companies are soaking up some recognition from Solar Power World, which listed Scenic Hill, Seal Solar and Shine Solar to its 2020 Top Solar Contractors list. read more >
Just weeks after state regulators rejected an Entergy Arkansas plan to sell solar power at lower rates to customers like cities, counties and school districts, Arkansas' largest electric utility has submitted a revised plan for approval. read more >
Katie Laning Niebaum has left the Arkansas Advanced Energy Association and is set to give birth to identical twin girls any minute. read more >
Entergy Arkansas has asked for a rehearing of last month’s state regulatory decision to keep compensation at retail levels for power put onto the grid by customers with solar generation systems interconnected to utilities under net metering. read more >
Some, like the hospitality industry, are bracing for a long, slow return to pre-COVID vitality. Others, like the energy sector, see a quicker recovery after the early swoon. Some trends seem baked into expectations, like reliance on home-based employees and the technology they use. read more >
The Arkansas Advanced Energy Association expressed approval of state regulators’ decision last week on solar power policy, describing an Arkansas Public Service Commission ruling “a clear economic winner in Arkansas.” read more >
Net-metering decision, with caveats, keeps credit equal to retail power rate. read more >
Home and business solar power system installation soared last year in Arkansas, which added a record 812 new net-metering customers between Jan. 1 and the end of the year. read more >
With the coronavirus pandemic wreaking economic havoc, former Lt. Gov. Bill Halter fears a long-awaited state ruling on solar power policy could threaten $125 million in projects by his firm alone. read more >
The advanced energy economy is an increasingly important economic engine in Arkansas. read more >
With a final public hearing Wednesday, the Arkansas Public Service Commission appears to be within weeks of ruling on what compensation solar-generating customers should get from power companies. read more >
Private-sector corporations in Arkansas are taking the spotlight with multimillion-dollar solar power projects, with a goal of cutting costs. read more >
Carlisle farmer Don Kittler looked out at his 18-acre field east of Lonoke, beaming at row after row soaking up the sun. But these weren’t the usual rows of corn, soybeans and rice he farms on 10,000 acres of in Lonoke and Prairie counties. read more >
Ouachita Electric Cooperative Corp. of Camden will seek the state's first utility-wide electricity rate decrease tied to savings from solar power. read more >
The sun never sets on Arkansas’ solar power pricing battle, it seems, but a swirl of cases before Arkansas regulators and a major ruling in Louisiana favoring Entergy Inc. suggest a reckoning may be near. read more >
The state's chief utility regulator and its energy secretary will lead a parade of business leaders, policymakers and contractors examining energy industry trends Tuesday at the Arkansas Advanced Energy Association's annual meeting and conference. read more >
Arkansas cities, counties and school districts are taking advantage of new financing to save money by going solar. read more >
After four years of looking at options, Pulaski County has put solar power "squarely in the pipeline" with a bid proposal for building a multimillion-dollar sun farm on county property, a project expected to save taxpayers 25-35% on an electric bill that once ran $1.2 million a year. read more >
After a dozen years in Washington working for U.S. Sen. Blanche Lincoln and the National Restaurant Association, Katie Niebaum returned in 2016 to lead the Arkansas Advanced Energy Association. read more >
