Keeping Eye on Sparrow, and Solar Power’s Ascent
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 >
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 >
Former Lt. Gov. Bill Halter is walking on sunbeams this spring, skipping from one public solar power project to another as CEO of Scenic Hill Solar of North Little Rock. 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 >
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 >
Ouachita Electric Cooperative Corp. of Camden will seek the state's first utility-wide electricity rate decrease tied to savings from solar power. read more >
A bill that supporters say could more than double solar power construction in Arkansas moved a step closer to final passage Monday in the General Assembly, one of two pieces of energy legislation cleared by the Joint Energy Committee at the state Capitol. read more >
As CEO of Ouachita Electric Cooperative Corp. in Camden, Mark Cayce has seen the light, and it is solar. He has made sun power a cornerstone of innovative programs serving a high-tech corner of Arkansas: the defense manufacturing cluster in East Camden, home to a 12-megawatt solar array that was the largest in the state when it was built three years ago. read more >
Adam Fogleman, Pulaski County's attorney, a wide-ranging coalition of counties, environmentalists and renewable energy industry players back new net metering legislation. read more >
