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Times Record
February 11, 2018
After the Arkansas Public Service Commission turned them down, Clean Line went to the Department of Energy to use a law, for the first time, that allowed the federal government to override all state's authority and condemn Arkansas lands. Because of insider knowledge of the DOE through Clean Line'sÃÂ ...
Arkansas Online
February 8, 2018
Asa Hutchinson has asked the Arkansas Public Service Commission to pass along the benefits of the corporate tax cut to Arkansas ratepayers. As apparent as the success of the new tax law has been, Democrats in Washington have resorted to unhinged hysteria in an effort to make the law less popular.
Seeking Alpha
February 2, 2018
For our utilities subsidiaries, on December 15, our Arkansas gas subsidiary filed a rate review with the Arkansas Public Service Commission seeking to increase annual revenues by approximately $30 million, with rates effective hopefully by the fourth quarter of 2018. On November 17, our NorthwestÃÂ ...
NWAOnline
January 31, 2018
It will probably be at least midyear before a final decision is made on how much utilities in Arkansas will lower their bills as a result of the new corporate tax rate, an executive with the Arkansas Public Service Commission told a legislative committee Tuesday. But whenever the decision is made, the newÃÂ ...
Law360
January 30, 2018
Law360, New York (January 30, 2018, 1:47 PM EST) -- The D.C. Circuit on Tuesday backed the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's decision holding Entergy's Arkansas utility unit to millions of dollars in payments mandated by an electricity system agreement, rejecting arguments from Arkansas utility regulators thatÃÂ ...
Log Cabin Democrat
January 30, 2018
“This is the mechanism approved by the Arkansas Public Service Commission to adjust rates for fluctuations from year to year in the costs of providing service and investing in upgrades to the electric system.” The increase would not account for doubled or tripled amounts on customers' energy bills.
THV 11
January 29, 2018
Periodically, the Arkansas Public Service Commission approves increases, and sometimes decreases, to charges on the bill,” Thompson said. Entergy encourages anyone with questions or concerns to contact them. They are also encouraged to take advantage of free customer options like energyÃÂ ...
Harrison Daily
January 24, 2018
The Arkansas Public Service Commission is the state agency that oversees utility companies that provide electricity, natural gas and water. These utility companies hold a monopoly on the service they provide. When a utility company wants to raise the price it charges its customers, it submits a rate requestÃÂ ...
Magnoliareporter
January 21, 2018
The Arkansas Public Service Commission is the state agency that oversees utility companies that provide electricity, natural gas and water. These utility companies hold a monopoly on the service they provide. When a utility company wants to raise the price it charges its customers, it submits a rate requestÃÂ ...
NWAOnline
January 12, 2018
The Arkansas Public Service Commission on Friday told the state's eight investor-owned utilities to file an analysis of the effects of federal tax cuts on their rates. Congress passed a bill last month that lowered the federal corporate tax rate from 35 percent to 21 percent. Gov. Asa Hutchinson told theÃÂ ...
E&E News
December 14, 2017
John Athas, a consultant testifying on behalf of the Arkansas Public Service Commission's general staff, said, "SWEPCO has not demonstrated that the Wind Catcher Project is among the least cost alternatives available" to add over 1,300 MW of wind capacity to the system. A docket in Texas includesÃÂ ...
Arkansas Online
December 14, 2017
The Arkansas Public Service Commission on Wednesday approved a rate increase of 3.75 percent for Entergy Arkansas' residential customers. The commission heard testimony last month on a settlement reached by Entergy and parties to the case, including a group of large industrial electricity users andÃÂ ...
Arkansas Times (blog)
November 30, 2017
BENJAMIN HARDY; Rep. Stephen Meeks tells the Public Service Commission that the intent of his Act 827 was to promote distributed generation of power. At a packed public meeting Thursday, the Arkansas Public Service Commission heard testimony in advance of a major decision on net metering thatÃÂ ...
Arkansas Business Online
November 30, 2017
After nearly a year and a half of debate on the value of rooftop solar power generated at homes and businesses in Arkansas, a day of reckoning is at hand. The Arkansas Public Service Commission will begin hearing testimony Thursday in the last public hearing on a state energy policy that experts say ...
Hot Springs Sentinel
November 28, 2017
On Thursday, Nov. 30, the Arkansas Public Service Commission (PSC) will weigh arguments from rooftop solar advocates against arguments by SWEPCO and Entergy on the amount private landowners should pay to send our excess solar power to the grid. The Arkansas Legislature has required the PSCÂ ...
Russellville Courier
November 21, 2017
... of circumventing the will of the state of Arkansas after the plan was reviewed and rejected by the Arkansas Public Service Commission (PSC).
RTO Insider
November 20, 2017
FERC denied rehearing requests from the Arkansas Public Service Commission, the Louisiana Public Service Commission and Entergy ...
Helena Daily World
November 13, 2017
The largest electric utility in Arkansas is seeking approval from the Arkansas Public Service Commission to raise its rates next year. Entergy ...
Arkansas Online
November 9, 2017
... Entergy Arkansas residential customers will rise 3.75 percent next year if approved next month by the Arkansas Public Service Commission.
U.S. News & World Report
November 9, 2017
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — The largest electric utility in Arkansas is seeking approval from the Arkansas Public Service Commission to raise its ...
KATV
November 1, 2017
According to the utility giant's recent petition to the Arkansas Public Service Commission (PSC), Entergy Arkansas is seeking a declaratory ...
Arkansas Online
November 1, 2017
... and Arkansas Oklahoma Gas -- are required to file their winter rates each year by Oct. 31 with the Arkansas Public Service Commission.
Arkansas Online
October 31, 2017
... Arkansas plans to build a 100-megawatt solar farm in Chicot County, the utility said in a filing with the Arkansas Public Service Commission.
KUAR
October 30, 2017
When the Arkansas Public Service Commission early on rejected an application by Clean Line Energy Partners to build the Plains & Eastern ...
Arkansas Times (blog)
September 18, 2017
The Sierra Club in Arkansas says the state Public Service Commission should not change rules in a way that could discourage people who use solar power for electricity. The PSC is considering a change in rules for "net metering customers." People who generate solar power get a 1-to-1 credit for unusedÃÂ ...
Arkansas Business Online
July 13, 2017
The family-owned agriculture supplier also became a renewable pioneer as the first company to gain the Arkansas Public Service Commission's blessing for a net-metering facility generating more than 300 kilowatts of power. Net metering is the system that lets utility customers generate their own powerÃÂ ...
KUAR
November 21, 2016
Arkansas Public Service Commissioner Kim O'Guinn was appointed by Governor Asa Hutchinson on Monday (left to right). Credit Jacob Kauffman / KUAR. Kimberly O'Guinn has been appointed by the governor to one of three slots on the Arkansas Public Service Commission. The body regulates ArkansasÃÂ ...
KUAR
December 31, 1999
The Arkansas Public Service Commission can be thankful this season for some very outspoken electricity customers. More than 200, mostly private residents have published comments ahead of a public hearing Nov. 30 on Docket 16-027-R, proposed changes to net metering. Net metering is a utility ...
Arkansas Online
March 20, 2017
The projections were submitted in 2015 to the Arkansas Public Service Commission as Southwestern Electric Power Co.'s Integrated Resource Plan.
RTO Insider
March 16, 2017
Both the Louisiana Public Service Commission and Arkansas Public Service Commission asked for existing trends to be given 50% consideration while policy regulations and accelerated alternative technologies receive 30% and 20% weighting, respectively.
U.S. News & World Report
March 16, 2017
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - The Arkansas Public Service Commission has decided customers who now get credit on their utility bills for electricity they generate at their homes and businesses will be able to continue at current rates for 20 years.
Arkansas Business Online
March 15, 2017
In a significant decision for solar energy, Arkansans who now get credit on their utility bills for electricity they generate at their homes and businesses will be able to continue at current rates for 20 years.
Arkansas Business Online
March 14, 2017
... sound energy policy, reducing carbon emissions, improving energy efficiency by working with utilities and the PSC [Arkansas Public Service Commission], and then more recently on all the progress the state has made in renewable energy development.".
Arkansas Online
March 11, 2017
Electric transmission projects are historically approved at the state level, but after a rejected application from the Arkansas Public Service Commission to build the nearly 300-mile-long transmission line across 12 counties in our state, Clean Line ...
Daily Energy Insider
March 10, 2017
Rick Perry, urging him to review the Clean Line project, a transmission line that runs through Arkansas, Oklahoma and Tennessee. The Arkansas Public Service Commission rejected the proposed project, but the Department of Energy (DOE) used SectionÃÂ ...
Arkansas Business Online
March 8, 2017
The Clean Line project, planned by Clean Line energy Partners of Houston, Texas, was rejected by the Arkansas Public Service Commission before being revived with support from the Department of Energy in the Obama administration. The EnergyÃÂ ...
Arkansas Online
February 23, 2017
President and Chief Executive Officer Duane Highley; Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality Director Becky Keogh and John Bethel, executive director of of the general staff of the Arkansas Public Service Commission. University of Arkansas ...
Arkansas Online
February 22, 2017
The bill provides a procedure that enables natural-gas companies to present proposed natural-gas pipeline extension projects requested by potential customers to the Arkansas Public Service Commission for review, Vaught said. If the commission finds ...
RTO Insider
February 20, 2017
Ted Thomas, chairman of the Arkansas Public Service Commission, said his state is in a good position - for now. "It's easy to be in my position when gas prices are low.
KATV
February 16, 2017
In fact, in a report commissioned by Diamond Pipeline and presented to the Arkansas Public Service Commission the likelihood of a release at Spadra Creek was found to be microscopically low.
E&E News
February 15, 2017
"In the past three weeks, to me as a Republican appointed by a Republican governor, I'm not reassured by the progress the Congress and the administration are making," said Ted Thomas, chairman of the Arkansas Public Service Commission. "If they don'tÃÂ ...
Huffington Post
February 15, 2017
... they used to plan their route, and so the City of Clarksville and Clarksville Light & Water had to threaten Diamond with litigation and intervention in their permitting process with the Arkansas Public Service Commission to acquire any kind of ...
KATV
February 13, 2017
In fact, in a report commissioned by Diamond Pipeline and presented to the Arkansas Public Service Commission the likelihood of a release at Spadra Creek was found to be microscopically low.
Arkansas Online
January 31, 2017
First Electric Cooperative Corp. of Jacksonville asked the Arkansas Public Service Commission on Monday for a 2.38 percent rate increase.
Arkansas Online
January 29, 2017
Huckabee went on to win election as governor and held the job through 2007, eventually appointing Smith, a fellow Baptist, to head the Arkansas Public Service Commission and later the Arkansas Supreme Court. After Smith lost a run for a seat on the ...
RTO Insider
January 2, 2017
... bettering the previous high month of 10.8% last March. Virtual transactions as a percentage of load have increased from 7.1% two years ago to 11.7% in 2016.
KARK
December 20, 2016
Once the water is contaminated with the oil, clean up is almost virtually impossible," says Elizabeth Scroggins, who's against the Diamond Oil Pipeline Project.
Houston Chronicle
December 15, 2016
Bassett, a former commissioner on the Arkansas Public Service Commission, is chairman of Empower Consumers, a Tennessee-based, nonprofit organization that advocates for public policies that can make energy cleaner and more affordable for allÃÂ ...
The Free Weekly
December 15, 2016
A few weeks later, Arkansas Public Service Commission Administrative Law Judge Susan D'Auteuil approved the pipeline on Aug. 31 for having met all the statutory requirements to build across five waterways in the state.
Arkansas Online
December 12, 2016
Diamond Pipeline received approval from the Arkansas Public Service Commission in August to build across five waterways in the state: the Arkansas River in Franklin County; the Illinois Bayou in Pope County; the White River in Prairie County; the St ...
