by - April 20, 2026 12:17 pm
University of Arkansas and solar energy sector officials are set to gather Wednesday (April 22) in west Fayetteville to unveil a new solar facility that is part of the university’s…
by - June 2, 2025 10:50 am
Large-scale solar power facilities are on about 0.2% of Arkansas agricultural land, with utility-scale solar ranging in land use between 445 acres for a 50-megawatt site to 2,670 acres for…
by - September 19, 2024 10:21 am
Little Rock-based Entergy Arkansas announced Thursday (Sept. 18) it has begun operating its 100-megawatt (MW) Walnut Bend Solar Energy Center located near Brinkley, Ark. According to Entergy, Walnut Bend is…
by - February 22, 2023 6:11 pm
The House Insurance and Commerce committee spent as much time debating a controversial issue as Senators did with the governor’s education bill on Wednesday (Feb. 22). HB1370 by Rep. Lanny…
by - January 23, 2023 2:34 pm
Oklahoma energy services company EightTwenty Solar has expanded to the Northwest Arkansas market with a Fayetteville office at 5 E. Mountain St. A spokeswoman said the market entry would create 20 jobs….
by - August 28, 2022 10:54 am
A new federal law that’s expected to impact climate change will extend or establish tax incentives for solar arrays, electric vehicles and U.S. manufacturers of solar array components, Arkansas energy…
by - February 20, 2021 9:18 am
During this week’s historic winter weather, power companies across the South were waylaid with shortages to meet demand. Intertwined regional grid systems and Texas’ standalone model complicated the flow of…
by - July 2, 2020 11:24 am
Two solar array installers with Little Rock metro area offices have recently completed or started work on multiple solar power plants that are expected to provide a multimillion-dollar economic impact…
by - August 12, 2019 8:25 pm
A transition in Arkansas’s economy is underfoot. As residents change the way they receive goods and services, particularly in rural communities, businesses have been faced with a difficult choice: adapt…
by - July 24, 2019 4:09 pm
A growing number of Arkansas cities, counties and school districts are moving toward solar to handle all or a portion of their electricity demand. None of those are in the…
by - July 19, 2019 2:40 pm
Searcy Water Utilities has partnered with solar power developer Entegrity Energy Partners of Little Rock to build a 5.7-megawatt solar power plant to meet the utility’s electricity demand, according to…
by - June 13, 2019 10:01 pm
Seal Energy Solutions, now Seal Solar, officially opened a new headquarters in Argenta last week. The Arkansas-based company, founded in 2012 by Josh Davenport and Heather Nelson, is focusing exclusively…
by - April 8, 2019 1:12 pm
“Solar energy means more jobs in Arkansas,” Senator Dave Wallace of Leachville recently told his Senate colleagues. Speaking from the well of the Arkansas Senate chamber on a March afternoon,…
by - March 5, 2019 10:27 am
Leaders of the city of Fayetteville, Ozarks Electric Cooperative and Today’s Power Inc. (TPI) broke ground Monday (March 4) on the largest solar power system on municipal land in Arkansas….
by - June 29, 2017 3:40 pm
Add the Johnson County seat of Clarksville to the growing list of cities and companies in Arkansas investing in solar power. Once built, it will be the largest solar power…
by - May 9, 2017 4:01 pm
Here comes the sun and I say it’s alright, Entergy Arkansas and NextEra Energy Resource officials announced Tuesday (May 9). While no one was there to sing the Beatles’ solar-powered…
by - April 20, 2017 5:36 pm
For former Arkansas Lt. Governor Bill Halter and his corporate partner, L’Oréal USA, they’ve planted a field of beams. On Thursday, Halter’s solar panel company Scenic Hill Solar and cosmetics…
by - June 16, 2016 4:04 pm
While most work to escape the hot summer sun, Arkansas Valley Electric Cooperative is working to chase it with work beginning on a 500,000-watt solar array to be built on…
by - March 29, 2016 11:08 am
The switch will soon be flipped on 151,200 solar panels that will provide electricity to the growing defense industry operations in East Camden. The 12-megawatt solar field – the largest…
by - June 2, 2015 3:09 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)…
