Utilities Report Success in Storm Recovery
At the peak of the storms, the state’s 17 local electric distribution providers collectively had about 10,000 members without power. read more >
At the peak of the storms, the state’s 17 local electric distribution providers collectively had about 10,000 members without power. read more >
Gov.-elect Sarah Huckabee Sanders says she will nominate former Entergy Arkansas CEO Hugh McDonald as the secretary of the Arkansas Department of Commerce. read more >
The company expects the project to create 250 construction jobs and a result in a 15% increase in total jobs at the two facilities. read more >
With war in Ukraine driving a global energy crisis, Entergy Arkansas Inc. has turned to the sun exclusively for new electricity generation. read more >
As renewable power surpasses coal as a U.S. energy source, Entergy Corp. of New Orleans is committing to cut power-production carbon emissions to zero within 30 years, and is teaming with Mitsubishi Power in Arkansas and three other states as part of that effort. read more >
Entergy Arkansas, the state’s largest electric utility, is planning one of the state’s largest solar power stations, Walnut Bend Solar, near Brinkley along Interstate 40 in Lee County. 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 >
David Palmer, director of regulatory affairs for Entergy Arkansas, provided these answers to Arkansas Business' questions about last week's net-metering ruling by the Arkansas Public Service Commission. 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 >
Ventrell Thompson and James Garland have been promoted to customer service regional manager positions in the Little Rock office of Entergy Arkansas. read more >
The Arkansas Public Service Commission grants Entergy Arkansas' application for a major 100-megawatt solar project near Searcy that would be the state’s largest utility solar farm. read more >
Entergy Arkansas, the state’s largest electric utility with 700,000 meters, pledged to help customers keep the lights on during the COVID-19 crisis. 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 >
The Arkadelphia Regional Economic Development Alliance announced on Facebook that it's preparing to market a 1,000-acre industrial property described as "the former Sun Bio site." read more >
Bring a good work ethic and strong “resiliency muscles” to any job. That’s the advice Laura Landreaux, president and CEO of Entergy Arkansas, offered in an interview Wednesday at the Little Rock Regional Chamber’s Women’s Business Luncheon. 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 >
Chris Cook, Matt Faries, Whitney Rial and Omar Clemons have been named as four newly assigned Entergy Arkansas customer service representatives. read more >
The state Public Service Commission weighs Entergy's solar proposal as third-party arrays save cash for untaxed entities. read more >
William Cunningham wanted to follow his electrician father’s footsteps, but his parents urged him to be the worker designing systems, not the guy running the wires. read more >
