by - June 3, 2015 2:50 pm
Content partner KUAR FM 89.1 News reports: The U.S. Coast Guard kept a 2-mile section of the Arkansas River near Little Rock, Ark., closed to navigation Wednesday, following the rupture…
by - June 3, 2015 10:25 am
Murphy Oil Corp. President and CEO Roger Jenkins shared in a recent interview with a Wall Street analyst that the El Dorado-based Fortune 500 company has not been approached by…
by - June 2, 2015 1:23 pm
Little Rock-based Southwest Power Pool, a regional power grid operator, has expanded its management footprint of electric reliability coordination to include the Integrated System transmission system. The addition includes more…
by - June 2, 2015 1:18 pm
Nashville-based renewable energy provider Silicon Ranch Corp. announced Tuesday (June 2) that it has hired Phoenix-based McCarthy Building Companies Inc. to handle the engineering and construction of a 12-megawatt (MW)…
by - June 2, 2015 9:07 am
Many Arkansans are looking forward to purchasing a “big ticket” household item during the second half of 2015 as many have seen their personal financial situation improve this year, according…
by - June 2, 2015 9:06 am
The Creighton University Mid-America Business Conditions Index for May shows that the regional economy that includes Arkansas is pointing to positive but slow economic growth over the next three to six months.
by - May 29, 2015 6:45 am
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by - May 27, 2015 8:25 am
First quarter numbers in the overall freight sector suggested a robust U.S. economy for 2015. But recent declines in the American Trucking Associations’ Index and the Cass Freight Index have…
by - May 22, 2015 5:39 am
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by - May 20, 2015 5:55 pm
Picasolar Inc., a solar start-up company affiliated with the University of Arkansas, dedicated its new headquarters on Wednesday (May 20) at the Arkansas Research and Technology Park. The 2,300-square-foot space…
by - May 20, 2015 5:48 pm
The Arkansas Energy Office (AEO), a division of the Arkansas Economic Development Commission (AEDC), said its Gaseous Fuels Rebate Program is now closed as the funds have been expended. Approximately…
by - May 19, 2015 9:01 am
The Arkansas Electric Cooperative Corp. (AECC) has secured another long-term agreement for more wind power, this time purchasing 108 megawatts of wind energy from the planned Drift Sand Wind Farm….
by - May 18, 2015 8:23 am
Two organizations – Midcontinent Independent System Operator and Southwest Power Pool – are putting Arkansas at the center of the nation’s electricity transmission grid.
by - May 13, 2015 10:16 am
Two full-scale biomass plants in South Arkansas are still scheduled to come online by the end of 2016, just in time for the wood pellet market to gain steam in Europe as industrial power generators switch from coal to renewable fuels.
by - May 8, 2015 5:58 am
MISO recently released its 2015 summer forecast, projecting that the Carmel-Ind.-based grid operator will have more than enough electric power generation to meet peak demand during the hottest part of the year.
by - May 6, 2015 6:17 pm
A CenterPoint Energy spokeswoman said Wednesday that Arkansas customers should already begin seeing lower monthly bills due to a decreasing gas supply rate (GSR) adjustment that comes from falling wellhead…
by - May 5, 2015 12:08 pm
Nashville-based renewable energy provider Silicon Ranch Corp. said it has selected publicly traded First Solar in Tempe, Ariz., to provide power for a new solar energy project planned for the Highland Industrial Park in East Camden.
by - May 5, 2015 7:55 am
Shares of Murphy USA were moving lower in early trading Tuesday after the El Dorado-based retail marketer saw its first quarter profits improve more than 138% from a year ago…
by - May 2, 2015 7:27 am
The sight of a $1.3 billion steel mill being built south of Osceola was something to behold, the state’s senior senator said Friday afternoon. Sen. John Boozman, R-Ark., took a…
by - May 1, 2015 5:23 am
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