High fuel costs, government regulation and shutdowns of fossil-fuel generation plants are strangling the electric cooperatives’ ability to supply affordable and dependable power to 1.2 million cooperative members in Arkansas. read more >
Wolf will be the first woman to serve as president and CEO of the cooperative. read more >
Jen Hoss will serve as the new vice president over Arkansas Electric Cooperative Corporation/Arkansas Electric Cooperatives Inc. of Little Rock. read more >
She previously worked for the Arkansas Public Service Commission as director of rates and demand resources and general staff attorney. read more >
The Arkansas Public Service Commission is demanding answers from the state’s 17 electric distribution co-ops on accusations of foot-dragging and obstruction in solar interconnections. read more >
Increasing access to broadband is the mission of a $1.66 billion project in Arkansas. read more >
Arkansas Electric Cooperative Corp. CEO Buddy Hasten thinks of solar power as a part-time employee, but a valuable one. read more >
The Arkansas Public Service Commission and lawmakers address the statewide dispute over plugging in. read more >
Arkansas Electric Cooperative Corp. CEO Buddy Hasten looks at lessons for the grid and possibilities for new cooperative models. 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 Gov. Asa Hutchinson orders a state inquiry into how Arkansas’ electricity grid performed in February’s record cold snap and power generation crisis, Arkansas utilities plot ways to ease impacts on customers resulting from fuel price spikes during the emergency. 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 >
David Frankenberg has been named vice president and CFO of Arkansas Electric Cooperative Corp. and Arkansas Electric Cooperatives Inc., effective Jan. 1. read more >
Kristi Crum, Laura Landreaux, Jean Block and Lori Burrows discuss career transitions, pay equity, work-life balance, diversity and more during the Women’s Leadership Symposium. read more >
C. Wayne Whitaker takes an opportunity to look back on a lifetime of big events in the cooperative power industry. read more >
The coronavirus pandemic, which has pushed much of daily living online, highlights Arkansas’ status as a laggard in broadband deployment and illustrates the digital divide between broadband haves and have-nots. 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 >
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 >
Buddy Hasten says the rate that net-metering customers get now is far out of whack with market pricing and with the basic economic tenet of supply and demand. read more >
