Energy

Russellville is the first municipality in the country to modernize its municipal sports parks through Performance Lighting Delivered (PLD), an innovative lighting-as-a-service business model from NGU Sports Lighting. Through the project, Russellville modernized sports lighting at Pleasant View Park, M.J. …

Smackover Lithium, a joint partnership between Standard Lithium and Equinor in its southwest Arkansas project, announced that it has amended its binding commercial offtake agreement with Trafigura Trading. The amendment provides for additional offtake volumes to complete the Project’s customer …

Southern Arkansas University has received a $50,000 gift from ExxonMobil to support the construction of the SAU Workforce Development Center. The center, a 4,800-square-foot facility, will train students and adult job seekers for careers in critical mineral production, advanced manufacturing …

The fourth cohort of Arkansas Lithium Technology Accelerator will soon begin the three-week accelerator program, which will give the companies exposure to people, infrastructure and resources throughout Arkansas. ALTA is the nation’s first accelerator dedicated to lithium and battery supply-chain …

North Little Rock is set to become home to a new state-of-the-art manufacturing facility from intelligent power management company Eaton, representing an investment of more than $242 million and an expected 1,200 new jobs. The 1 million-square-foot facility will manufacture …

Smackover Lithium, a partnership between Standard Lithium Ltd. and Equinor ASA, has reached a 10-year, take-or-pay agreement with LG Energy Solution, a global manufacturer of lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles and energy storage systems. Under the agreement, the South West …

Ozarks Electric Cooperative and Arkansas Electric Cooperative Corporation (AECC) have approved agreements that will change how the two organizations work together going forward. Under the new agreements, Ozarks Electric will transition from being a member-owner of AECC to a long-term …

Southern Bancorp opened a new solar energy project on July 17 in Marianna, in partnership with Entegrity of Little Rock. The project includes a 1.5 MW-DC solar array with a 1.13 MW-AC capacity and is expected to produce approximately 2.5 …

Electricity is an amenity that most people in the country take for granted, yet in Arkansas, statewide electrification is actually a fairly recent thing. Less than 100 years ago, in 1930, only 2.1 percent of Arkansas farms had electricity, and …

The Little Rock city board on Tuesday failed to pass a proposal that would have temporarily halted development of data centers in the city. The proposal would’ve placed an 18-month moratorium on the development of data centers in Little Rock, …