2nd Wind Farm Serving Arkansas Swepco Customers Now Online
It will provide renewable energy to all of the company's 122,800 customers in west Arkansas. read more >
It will provide renewable energy to all of the company's 122,800 customers in west Arkansas. read more >
Denver-based Summit Utilities is acquiring $2.15 billion worth of CenterPoint Energy’s assets, including a vast underground natural gas infrastructure in Arkansas and Oklahoma. read more >
Our state’s largest electric utility, Entergy Arkansas, is currently deciding how it will power its customers over the next 20 years. read more >
Johnson Controls of Little Rock and Greenbrier schools are on the cusp of a $13 million project to give the district Arkansas’ largest public entity-owned solar plant, new energy efficiency systems and “the cherry on top,” a high school pipeline to solar industry jobs. read more >
One beacon in last year's gloom was the nation’s renewable energy industry. Against all odds, the solar sector experienced extraordinary growth. read more >
Summit Utilities Inc. of Centennial, Colorado, says it will buy CenterPoint Energy's Arkansas and Oklahoma natural gas distribution assets in a $2.15 billion cash deal. read more >
Katie Laning Niebaum is back in the energy game, working part time for a group that has established itself as a somewhat unlikely policy titan in solar power: the Audubon Society. 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 >
Producers Rice Mill Inc. and Scenic Hill Solar of North Little Rock have regulatory clearance to build the state’s largest commercial solar power and battery storage system at the mill’s site in Stuttgart. read more >
What did the big February snowstorm do to the solar panels John Sawyer builds by the thousands at farms in schools in northeast Arkansas? Absolutely nothing, the Stone Creek Solar CEO reports. read more >
Entergy Arkansas executive Kurt Castleberry says the electric company has filed for regulatory approval of the state’s largest sun energy installation — by far. read more >
The stars, and particularly that fiery ball just 92 million miles from us, have aligned for Arkansas Business’ debut column on energy, a new monthly feature. read more >
Entegrity of Little Rock is building a solar array for the Central Arkansas Library System to provide electricity and savings of a million dollars over 25 years. read more >
The Arkansas Public Service Commission gave its blessing Wednesday to Central Arkansas Water’s plan to draw power from a large project with Scenic Hill Solar of North Little Rock. read more >
Solar businesses fear the toll as U.S. tax credits, now 26%, are set to fall to 22% in 2021 and to 10% for commercial projects only in 2022, barring policy shifts. read more >
Lower bills are coming to hundreds of thousands of Arkansas natural gas and electric power customers thanks to developments announced this week. read more >
Recent rulings in a five-year regulatory battle over solar energy policy in Arkansas leave two conclusions as sure as the sun rising in the east: More solar arrays are coming, and the fight over who will build them goes on. read more >
The largest supplier of water in Arkansas expands its service and holdings ever westward. 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 >
