Entergy Makes New Customer Service Assignments (Movers & Shakers)
Chris Cook, Matt Faries, Whitney Rial and Omar Clemons have been named as four newly assigned Entergy Arkansas customer service representatives. read more >
Chris Cook, Matt Faries, Whitney Rial and Omar Clemons have been named as four newly assigned Entergy Arkansas customer service representatives. read more >
The boards of directors of Arkansas Electric Cooperative Corp. (AECC) and Arkansas Electric Cooperatives Inc. (AECI) have named Vernon "Buddy" Hasten of Rogersville, Missouri, president and CEO. read more >
A quick look at annual reports from the state’s electric cooperative companies shows a significant spike in 2018 revenue over 2017, but the reason is no mystery, officials say. 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 >
Bill Conine, CEO of Petit Jean Electric Cooperative Corp. of Clinton, is stepping in as interim chief executive of Arkansas Electric Cooperative Corp. and Arkansas Electric Cooperatives Inc. of Little Rock. read more >
Duane Highley, president and chief executive officer for Arkansas Electric Cooperative Corp., is leaving the power company to become CEO of Tri-State Generation and Transmission, a wholesale power supplier in Colorado. read more >
Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge cast doubt Thursday on a pending legal settlement that would guarantee the shutdown of Entergy Arkansas' two coal-fired electricity generation plants over the next dozen years. read more >
Six electric cooperatives in Arkansas are bringing high-speed broadband internet access to thousands of their members and plan to offer it to all of their members within the next four to six years. read more >
King Coal isn’t dead, but it’s being dethroned as the top fuel source for creating electric power in Arkansas. read more >
In another foray into renewable power, the Arkansas Electric Cooperative Corp. of Little Rock has agreed to buy wind power from a 100-megawatt turbine farm under construction in Oklahoma, the utility announced Wednesday. read more >
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 >
Continuing a wave of investment in solar power by the state's electric cooperatives, Arkansas Electric Cooperative Corp. has agreed to buy solar electricity from an 800-acre generation facility to be built near Crossett. read more >
After the state attorney general's office made a case Thursday to allow Arkansas utilities to essentially pay less for electricity generated by customers with solar power systems, citing language in a 2015 law, the law's sponsor begged to differ. read more >
After nearly a year and a half of debate on the value of rooftop solar power generated at homes and businesses in Arkansas, a day of reckoning is at hand. read more >
A yearlong debate over the value of self-generated electricity in Arkansas is boiling down to a duel in the sun. read more >
Curt Bradbury, chief operating officer of Stephens Inc., will be honored by the Brandon Burlsworth Foundation on Oct. 10 at the Brandon Burlsworth Legends Dinner, which is to be held at the Statehouse Convention Center in Little Rock. read more >
An oil- and coal-friendly Trump administration is taking power in Washington, promising a real shake-up. Still, Arkansas energy observers caution against expecting a huge shift. read more >
As the Arkansas Public Service Commission wrangles over rules for putting home-generated electricity onto the grid, the biggest news for Pulaski County may be that it could find a path to net metering despite Entergy’s opposition to its legal arguments. read more >
Despite the promise of jobs and clean wind energy for Arkansas, the Clean Line has met resistance in court and from the state’s entire congressional delegation. read more >
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 >
