City officials and executives with Scenic Hill Solar of North Little Rock and Clarksville Connected Utilities cut the ribbon Wednesday on the Johnson County seat’s second solar power plant. 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 >
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 >
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 >
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 >
In a second major groundbreaking in a week, Scenic Hill Solar of North Little Rock will begin construction Thursday with a 1 p.m. ceremony for a long-awaited sun energy project for the city of Hot Springs. read more >
State utility regulators reject a plan by Entergy Arkansas to offer power from its new solar stations to customers at a special rate, a plan that the rising private solar development industry had labeled a “job killer.” 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 >
Scenic Hill Solar partners with the Ozark Mountain Regional Public Water Authority to build a $3 million, 2-megawatt solar power plant to fill 90 percent of the utility's electricity needs. read more >
Bill Halter, CEO of Scenic Hill Solar, pleads for regulators to reject a plan by Entergy Arkansas, but the utility says its solar offering will preserve jobs and save cities and counties money. 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 >
Two North Little Rock solar design and installation companies announced major projects early this month. 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 >
Scenic Hill Solar of North Little Rock announced another solar power project for an Arkansas school system, revealing plans for two photovoltaic arrays for the Stuttgart School District. read more >
Scenic Hill Solar of North Little Rock, ending 2019 on a downhill sprint, announced two new solar projects on Friday, a 4.8-megawatt system for Central Arkansas Water and a 1-megawatt array for the Centerpoint School District near Amity (Clark County). read more >
The "Jewel of the Delta" will soon have another glittering bauble, a 3.46-megawatt solar system to supply the municipality of Forrest City. read more >
Scenic Hill and Producers Rice Mill Inc. of Stuttgart announced plans for the largest commercial solar-and-storage plant in Arkansas and will rank among the largest in North America. 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 >
