Attention customers in the Walton Heights/Pleasant Ridge area in west Little Rock: Entergy Arkansas is moving power lines to accommodate the widening of Cantrell Rd./Highway 10. To do the work safely, it will be necessary to interrupt service to numerous customers in the area for 2-7 hours beginning 10 p.m. Wednesday, July 28.
As part of its ongoing dedication to economic development and renewable resources, Entergy Arkansas posted an intent recently to issue a request for proposals for up to 500 megawatts of solar and wind capacity to add to its electricity generating portfolio by 2026.
As part of its commitment to provide more renewable resources, Entergy Arkansas plans to add a large-scale solar farm of 180 megawatts on 1,600 acres near West Memphis in 2023.
Arkansas Power and Light founder Harvey Couch made a deal in 1913 to purchase sawdust – the company’s first fuel source – to burn and power a steam-powered turbine and send power through a 20-mile transmission line to customers in Malvern and Arkadelphia. That was the beginning of what would become Entergy Corporation, an integrated energy company engaged in electric power production, transmission and retail distribution operations across four service territories for 3 million customers. A little more than 10 years later, Mr. Couch’s Sterlington natural gas-powered plant in north Louisiana was placed online in November 1925. As the demand for electricity grew, so did the company’s fleet of power generation resources. Couch built Remmel Dam, the first hydroelectric dam on the Ouachita River, near Hot Springs in 1924. Just upstream in 1931 came Carpenter Dam, and both dams still generate emission-free power today.
Construction of the Searcy Solar power generating plant is about 42% complete. When the facility goes online by the end of this year, 100 megawatts of emission-free power will begin flowing from the plant’s more than 350,000 solar panels onto the Entergy Arkansas electric grid.
Danny Games, director of business and economic development for Entergy Arkansas, traces the roots of what he does for a living to 1913, the year Harvey Couch created the company that would eventually become Entergy. Couch built his business on the philosophy and on the slogan, “Helping Build Arkansas.”
Got your new advanced meter yet? As we begin the new year, we’ve already upgraded about 407,000 meters in Arkansas. We’re on track to have all 715,000 customers converted to advanced meters by the end of this year.
The following letter is being sent to our agricultural customers with electric irrigation pumps, each of which has its own meter. It includes information unique to these meters.
New Entergy mechanic Kassie Cramer comes by her vocation naturally. Her father owned an automotive repair shop when she was a little girl, and she was frequently right there to hand him a wrench. Now, at age 28, “I really like taking things apart and putting them back together.”
For 62 years the twin boilers and smokestack of the Moses Power Plant were an imposing landmark on the horizon just west of Forrest City, Ark. As of Dec. 1, the 231-acre site is, once again, an open field, save for a substation.