by - August 12, 2019 8:25 pm
A power shift
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…
Tag: solar power
by - July 24, 2019 4:09 pm
Officials in Fort Smith metro open to the idea of solar power
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
Entegrity to build $10 million solar plant for Searcy Water Utilities
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 Solar co-founder Heather Nelson explains shift to solar design and installations
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 can power Arkansas’ economy
“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
Work begins on largest municipal solar project in Arkansas
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
Clarksville utility, Scenic Hill Solar to partner on $10 million solar power plant
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
Entergy jumps into sun-fueled power generation with ‘Stuttgart Solar’ project
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
Bill Halter and L’Oréal are counting on the sun
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
AVEC to build 500,000-watt solar array in Van Buren
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
Officials to flip switch on 100-acre solar plant in south Arkansas
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
Construction to begin on solar power plant in Camden
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)…