The PSC issues another ruling helpful to solar power industry.
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Solar power company argues jobs in PSC rate debate
Solar energy producer says Entergy’s effort to cut reimbursement for excess power will slash employment necessary to recover from the virus pandemic.
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PSC chair blasts effort to force recusal from solar power cases
The chairman of the PSC and an electric utility are in a dispute over solar energy charges and his call to a consultant for the utility.
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Note: There is other news. Such as solar power and school desegregation
Got time amid the virus for other topics: Big stories brewing in solar power and school desegregation.
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North Little Rock Wastewater adding solar power
The North Little Rock Wastewater Utility will partner with Scenic Hill Solar to build a solar power plant that is expected to supply about 20 percent of the utility’s energy needs.
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Solar advocates get unlikely boost from GOP lawmaker at pivotal rule hearing
If the PSC elects to change net metering rules to be more favorable to utilities, Arkansas’s fledgling solar industry will be ‘decimated,’ advocates say.
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A call for support of solar energy at PSC hearing
The Arkansas Public Policy Panel has issued a call for supporters of clean energy be heard at the state Public Service Commission tomorrow as it considers a request from electric utilities to reduce benefits for people who use solar power.
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Kim O’Guinn is new PSC commissioner
Kimberly Lindsey O’Guinn, a 16-year employee of the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality, has been appointed by Governor Hutchinson to a six-year term on the Public Service Commission.
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The state of utility regulation: Mostly bad news for the biscuit cookers
Ernest Dumas writes about the sorry state of affairs — at least as far as consumers are concerned — with the law of utility rate regulation in Arkansas. He also notes that Attorney General Leslie Rutledge is, on the case of a current Energy rate case, for once not siding with the corporate interest.
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State moves to comply with EPA Clean Power Plan
The state of Arkansas indicated it will move to complay with federal Clean Power rules to reduce dangerous emissions from power plants, though continue to fight to reduce the cost on power companies.