by - October 6, 2016 5:00 pm
Black Hills Corporation Foundation will give $105,000 to help fund NorthWest Arkansas Community College’s planned Springdale campus, the foundation announced Thursday (Oct. 6) at an event in the Shewmaker Center…
by - October 5, 2016 10:06 am
Entergy Arkansas will sponsor Manufacturing Day 2016 at the South campus of Pulaski Technical College in Little Rock on Friday (Oct. 7), hosting more than 1,100 middle and high school…
by - October 4, 2016 3:50 pm
Today’s Talk Business & Politics Daily features interviews with U.S. Rep. Bruce Westerman, R-Hot Springs, State Rep. Vivian Flowers, D-Pine Bluff, and State Sen. Jeremy Hutchinson, R-Little Rock. Westerman, who…
by - October 4, 2016 1:23 pm
A spokeswoman for bromine manufacturer Great Lake Solutions said Monday at the Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission’s annual meeting in Little Rock that the recently announced acquisition of parent…
by - October 3, 2016 9:07 pm
Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson and Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin on Monday (Oct. 3) celebrated the nation’s growing energy independence and offered hope that presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump…
by - September 30, 2016 11:19 pm
Editor’s note: Each Friday, Talk Business & Politics provides “Energy In-depth,” a round-up of energy and regulatory news. ––––––––––––––––– EIA: CHINA WILL ACCOUNT FOR MORE THAN HALF OF GLOBAL NUCLEAR…
by - September 30, 2016 2:08 pm
Arkansas Valley Electric Cooperative officially switched on a 500,000-watt solar array today. Arkansas Valley partnered with Today’s Power Inc. – a subsidiary of Arkansas Electric Cooperatives Corp. to build the…
by - September 30, 2016 2:08 pm
Arkansas Valley Electric Cooperative officially switched on a 500,000-watt solar array today. Arkansas Valley partnered with Today’s Power Inc. – a subsidiary of Arkansas Electric Cooperatives Corp. to build the…
by - September 30, 2016 1:51 pm
For the first time since the end of 2015, a natural drilling rig in Arkansas is up and running in the Fayetteville Shale play as natural gas futures bounced around…
by - September 29, 2016 3:59 pm
Highland Pellet, Arkansas’ first full-scale wood pellet manufacturing facility, recently hired 54 new workers to begin work at the company’s $200 million, 600,000 metric ton manufacturing plant in Pine Bluff…
by - September 27, 2016 7:03 pm
The full bench of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit heard oral arguments Wednesday (Sept. 27) on the far-reaching federal Clean Power Plan as opponents and supporters…
by - September 27, 2016 3:09 pm
An IHS Markit report shows that U.S. natural gas production in the lower 48 states increased by about 1.4% in August, marking the second month in a row where output…
by - September 26, 2016 3:49 pm
Steve Patterson, founding executive director of the Arkansas Advanced Energy Association (AAEA) and its educational affiliate Arkansas Advanced Energy Foundation (AAEF), will retire on Oct. 31. Little Rock-native Katie Laning…
by - September 26, 2016 2:27 pm
Supporters and opponents of the Obama administration’s far-reaching Clean Power Plan are lining up in different camps as the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit prepares to begin…
by - September 25, 2016 9:02 am
Editor’s note: The Arkansas Energy Report is produced monthly and is sponsored by the Arkansas State Chamber of Commerce/Associated Industries of Arkansas, and MISO (Midcontinent Independent System Operator). Talk Business…
by - September 16, 2016 12:39 am
Editor’s note: Each Friday, Talk Business & Politics provides “Energy In-depth,” a round-up of energy and regulatory news. ––––––––––––––––– SWEPCO PARENT SELLS FOUR MIDWEST POWER PLANTS FOR $2.1 BILLION American…
by - September 15, 2016 9:42 am
Fayetteville-based startup WattGlass received a $679,413 award from the U.S. Department of Energy’s SunShot Initiative to help commercialize its anti-reflective glass coating technology. WattGlass will use SunShot the award to…
by - September 15, 2016 9:42 am
Fayetteville-based startup WattGlass received a $679,413 award from the U.S. Department of Energy’s SunShot Initiative to help commercialize its anti-reflective glass coating technology. WattGlass will use SunShot the award to…
by - September 13, 2016 2:56 pm
As Shandong Sun Paper moves forward with construction on a $1 billion, modern bio-products mill in Arkadelphia, Gov. Asa Hutchinson said Tuesday (Sept. 13) he will return to China for…
by - September 12, 2016 7:15 pm
The Nuclear Regulatory Commissions’ has issued its final mid-cycle assessment letters to the nation’s 99 operating commercial nuclear power plants regarding their performance through the first half of 2016, including…
