Send Scott Foushee and Rusty Pendergraft, members of the board of directors at Today’s Power Inc. in North Little Rock
Scott Foushee of Newport and Rusty Pendergraft of Texarkana have joined the board of directors Today’s Power Inc. of North Little Rock, a renewable energy company specializing in small utility scale solar power plants.
Today’s Power, a wholly owned subsidiary of Arkansas Electric Cooperatives Inc. of Little Rock, has built solar arrays for most of the state’s 17 electric distribution cooperatives. The additions to its 10-member board followed the retirement of Wayne Whitaker from Southwest Arkansas Electric Cooperative and the completion of a term by Wayne Beadles, a director at Woodruff Electric. He had been on the board since 2015, the year
Send Arkansas electric co-ops and broadband providers win $424 million to expand broadband to 200,612 homes and businesses over the next 10 years.
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Fiber Gigabit-Capable Broadband Service Coming to Rural Tx & Ar
Here s some great news if you live in the more rural areas surrounding Texarkana, Southwest Arkansas Electric Cooperative, through a wholly-owned fiber subsidiary, has secured more than $53 million through the Federal Communications Commission’s Rural Digital Opportunity Fund to deliver gigabit-capable broadband service. The fiber entity will offer service throughout the rural Arkansas, Oklahoma and Texas communities served by Southwest Arkansas Electric, along with designated rural communities in Louisiana.
According to the press release, the cooperative’s fiber entity intends to launch a fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) network to serve 100% of the 26,000-plus homes and businesses in its 11-county service territory. The RDOF funding will enable it to launch and deploy the gigabit-speed network to its members in a timely and cost-effective manner, allowing them to realize the economic, educational and community benefits