David Maxwell, former director of the Arkansas Department of Emergency Management, warns that a crippling cyberattack on power could bring a cascade of system failures across society — from communications to water systems to food and fuel distribution. read more >
CEO Laura Landreaux has added two young executives to her leadership team at Entergy Arkansas, promoting two colleagues who joined the company this century. read more >
Entergy Arkansas used controlled explosive blasts Friday morning to bring down three key structures of its retired Couch Harvey Couch Power Plant east of Stamps. read more >
Entergy Arkansas has agreed in a legal settlement with environmental groups to shut down coal-fired power generation at two sites in the state within 9-12 years, the utility and the Sierra Club said Friday morning. read more >
Entergy, which serves over 700,000 electric customers in Arkansas, has long been an engine of economic development, a gene present in the company’s DNA since its birth more than a century ago. read more >
Rich Anderson was comfortably in retirement when Entergy Arkansas came calling, looking for help steering Nuclear One back to good graces. read more >
Phase 1 set an expedited process for reviewing proposals for generation systems above the state’s 300-kilowatt cap for net metering. Phase II, deliberating future rate structures, has taken time. read more >
Newstream Hotel Partners 263-room hotel in midtown Little Rock from Windsor Capital Ltd., led by Al Rajabi. read more >
This week’s quartet of million-dollar deals: A nine-acre mobile home development in Saline County, a utility complex in southwest Little Rock, an all-terrain development in North Little Rock and three apartment buildings in midtown Little Rock read more >
Entergy Arkansas and the state's electric power cooperatives are offering a pre-emptive hand as Hurricane Florence bears down on the coast of North Carolina. read more >
The Arkansas Public Service Commission has set new energy efficiency goals for the state's electric utilities, ordering a savings target of 1.2 percent of baseline energy sales from 2020 through 2022. read more >
Anchor Realty Investments LLC, led by David Bubbus, bought the Mexico Chiquito at 13924 Cantrell Road. read more >
Recent real estate sales include apartments, office/warehouse, restaurant, duplexes and a garage. read more >
Entergy Arkansas' finance director, Laura Landreaux, has been named to be the investor-owned electric utility's first female chief executive, effective July 1. read more >
"If you can follow this, you don't have to wonder if your project is going to be approved," Arkansas PSC Chairman Ted Thomas said. "We want developers and utilities to know that if they fit in this box, they're going to be good to go." read more >
John Bethel, who retired last month as executive director of the Arkansas Public Service Commission, joined Entergy Arkansas yesterday as the electric utility's director of public affairs, responsible in part for relations with state governme read more >
Entergy Corp., the parent company of the state's largest electric utility, Entergy Arkansas, is denying that it paid actors to pack public meetings in New Orleans to support plans for a new power plant. read more >
Ashley County sees a big ball of energy up in the sky, and it is looking to a Kansas company to possibly harness the sun's power. 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 >
The 675-unit mini-storage project in west Little Rock was purchased by Modern SW LLC, led by Keith Richardson. read more >
