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Arkansas smart grid projects

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Woodruff Electric AMI

Woodruff Electric Cooperative’s (Woodruff) Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) project provides two-way communicating smart meters to all of its residential customers and selected commercial customers. The primary objective of the project is to gain efficiencies related to metering operations. The AMI system provides time-of-use data, outage information, and distribution load data, which is used to improve system reliability. In addition to the meters, Woodruff provides remote disconnect/reconnect switches that operate on the same existing power line carrier infrastructure as the smart meters and allow for bill prepay options for customers, remote firmware upgrades, and remote demand reset. Get details >>

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News and trends in Arkansas

Entergy Helps Grow Electric Vehicle (EV) Infrastructure with Grant

Entergy Arkansas, Inc. along with the Clinton Foundation and the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) has launched two new electric car charging stations in Little Rock. Through Entergy's Environmental Initiatives Fund, the company has partnered with Coulomb Technologies to fund the cost and installation of 16 electric vehicle charging stations at college campuses in and around Entergy's service area. Read more >>

Southeast a holdout in mandating renewable energy

States across the country are gradually forcing or cajoling their electric companies into buying renewable energy, but the trend has fallen flat in the Southeast. The map is striking. Of the 11 states that haven't set even voluntary targets on how much alternative energy utilities must buy, eight of them are Southern states -- Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina and Tennessee. Those involved in the debate say a mix of factors have deterred the states from more aggressively pursuing new sources of energy. Read more at Bloomberg Businessweek >>

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Super Superconductivity

A University of Arkansas physicist and his colleagues have found that ultra-thin films of superconductors and related materials don’t lose their fundamental properties when built under strain when built as atomically thin layers, an important step towards achieving artificially designed room temperature superconductivity. This ability will allow researchers to create new types of materials and properties and enable exotic electronic phases in ultra-thin films. Read more in Lab Manager Magazine >>

Entergy Arkansas rewards city of Little Rock for saving energy

Entergy Arkansas, Inc. is making sure energy efficiency improvements are paying off in a big way for the city of Little Rock. Today, Entergy Arkansas, Inc. regional customer service manager James Jones presented Little Rock Mayor Mark Stodola with a check for $17,886 for installing equipment that should save the city nearly 269,000 kilowatt-hours of electricity per year. Read more >>

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