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 >
The Arkansas House voted last Thursday to pass the legislation cutting utility credits to solar power-generating customers basically in half. 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 >
The ruling upholds the net metering rate structure and reverses the authority of utilities to impose a grid charge. read more >
Energy prices are up, but don’t count on comeback for fossil fuels. read more >
He'll be working on climate and clean energy campaigns. read more >
Entergy Arkansas, the state’s largest electric utility, is seeking at least 300 megawatts of renewable generation projects to supplement its electrical supply by 2026. read more >
A federal judge in Little Rock on Thursday cleared the way for Entergy Arkansas, the state’s largest electric utility, to close coal-fired power plants in Jefferson and Independence counties. read more >
The Sierra Club is grading the nation’s utilities based on their climate progress, with Southwestern Electric Power Co. of Shreveport winning the best grade in Arkansas, a B. read more >
Randy Eminger of Bella Vista and the Arkansas Affordable Energy Coalition are committed to keeping Arkansas as a coal customer, and he’s challenging Entergy’s coal-plant closure plan in federal court, arguing that state utility regulators haven’t vetted it properly. read more >
Solar businesses fear the toll as U.S. tax credits, now 26%, are set to fall to 22% in 2021 and to 10% for commercial projects only in 2022, barring policy shifts. read more >
In the wake of a National Public Radio report on Wyoming spending political “dark money” to derail plans to shut down two Arkansas coal-fired power plants, Entergy Arkansas says it still plans to close the plants in Newark and Redfield, but that those plans are held up by a federal court case. 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 >
Southwest Electric Power Co. faces legal and environmental pressure on two fronts, with the Sierra Club filing a Public Service Commission request to force a resubmission of the utility’s 20-year resource plan and the city of Prescott suing it for $3.3 million. 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 >
A state agency has finalized new regulations covering emissions standards for power plants in Arkansas, drawing objections from environmentalists who say the rules are weak, and revealing in the details that Entergy Arkansas will cease to burn coal at its plant in Redfield in 2028. read more >
The parent company of Southwestern Electric Power Co. this week announced a significant turn away from coal, and Entergy Corp. pulled out of a leading nuclear energy trade group. read more >
Fayetteville becomes the first city in the state to commit to using all renewable energy in its municipal operations. The plan also includes a goal of powering every Fayetteville home and business with renewable power by 2050. read more >
The state’s top utility regulator expressed deep doubts Tuesday about Energy Secretary Rick Perry’s proposed rule to fortify the national electric grid’s “resilience” by providing cost recovery for coal and nuclear power plants. read more >
President Trump's decision to withdraw from the Paris climate accord drew support and criticism from predictable quarters. But the bottom line for Arkansas businesses may be that the decision changes little here. read more >
