Entergy has asked customers to reduce power use this morning because of potential power shortages in the supply system in which it participates.
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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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Entergy plans another major solar project, this one near Lake Village
A state Public Service Commission docket indicates Entergy Arkansas is continuing to expand its power generation to renewable sources — specifically a 100-megawatt generating facility in Chicot County.
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Groundbreaking today for solar energy project in Stuttgart
Ground was broken today in Stuttgart on a solar energy generating installation. Maybe coal’s comeback isn’t the sure thing Donald Trump says it is.
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Coal is not coming back, Trump or no Trump
Must read: Ernest Dumas explains why coal is dead, no matter how much Donald Trump, Leslie Rutledge, Arkansas congressmen and the State Chamber of Commerce and others talk about overturning clean power rules. The future is gas, wind and solar.
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Broadway Bridge ceremony set Thursday; so what about lights?
A formal opening is set for the new Broadway Bridge and so here’s another question: Will it be adorned by an LED light show like those on three bridges downstream? Maybe.
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Entergy explodes the old Lynch plant
Entergy Arkansas demolished by explosion a portion of the defunct Lynch Plant generating station in North Little Rock this afternoon. The remaining units will come down mechanically.
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Victim fleeing sexual assault gets burned at power station and that leads to six-hour power outage in western Little Rock
UPDATE: A six-hour power outage in western Little Rock this morning is being linked by police to a woman’s attempt to escape a rapist in a power substation, where she was shocked and burned.
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Clean energy explained. 1) Ark. politicians are hypocrites
Clean energy and Arkansas politicians’ hypocrisy. Ernest Dumas has all the explanation you need about the Clean Line project.
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Sierra Club notes decline in coal-plant electricity production
The Sierra Club today said new data shows a sharp drop — 30 percent year to year — in operating time at Entergy’s two big coal-fired power plants in Arkansas. Is change coming despite the business establishment’s fight for coal?