The event, at the Arkansas Research and Technology Park, is an effort to connect advanced energy industry stakeholders with potential research partners and funding opportunities. read more >
Recent legislation changing Arkansas’ solar power policy has solar developers scrambling. read more >
The amended bill will essentially halve the credit that utilities pay to customers — both residential and commercial — who generate their own power. read more >
Katie Laning Niebaum has left her post as president of Delta Solar of Little Rock, the solar development company led by Bob East and Douglas Hutchings, in an uncertain time for solar development in Arkansas. read more >
Delta Solar and school officials expect the system to save the district $1.5 million in energy costs over the two-decade-plus life of the array. read more >
Kane said his career as a journalist had led to relationships with Arkansas community and business leaders, and he’s eager to update them on the benefits of renewable energy. read more >
The state has two solar fields on hold, but CEO of Delta Solar says now is the time for solar power. read more >
The president of Delta Solar of Little Rock brings a background in business ownership, politics and advocacy to her new role. 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 >
Stephanie Osborne wouldn’t exactly characterize her first weeks as executive director of the Arkansas Advanced Energy Association as “settling in.” 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 >
Bob East says he has acquired a 25% interest in Delta Solar, the 3-year-old company formerly known as Delta SunEnergy, and is now its chairman. 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 >
The Arkansas Research Alliance announces that Douglas Hutchings has been named director of the ARA Academy of Scholars & Fellows, effective July 1. read more >
Arkansas has its biggest year of solar power installation ever in 2018, and the reason’s no mystery to Bill Halter. read more >
Arkansas’ college programs in electrical engineering are thriving, with enrollment up over the past 10 years in all of the state’s accredited programs. read more >
The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded $2 million to Picasolar Inc. for a pilot manufacturing program connected to solar cell technology developed at the university. read more >
Fresh off a new round of federal SunShot Initiative funding and a $1.2 million round of equity capital, Fayetteville's Picasolar will spend the next 10 to 12 months scaling its solar cells to meet the industry standard. read more >
Fayetteville solar startup Picasolar has named former Arkansas lieutenant governor Bill Halter to its board of directors. Halter served as the state's 14th lieutenant governor from 2007 to 2011. read more >
Silicon Solar Solutions of Fayetteville has developed a method of improving the efficiency of solar cells by 15 percent, and the patent for its technology has moved from provisional to pending by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office. read more >
