Arkansas’s largest-ever solar project might not have moved forward had plans not been finalized before a new law went into effect that changed the financing structure of solar energy projects in the state.
Bill Halter, the chief executive of Scenic Hill Solar of North Little Rock, said the University of Arkansas System’s solar installation, which will span 18 sites and provide renewable energy to all UA System campuses, is the fourth largest university solar installation in the United States. It will deliver 66 megawatts of electricity. The project dwarfs all other solar installations built in Arkansas so far.
“Today Arkansas has a once in a generation opportunity,” Halter said during a press conference Tuesday at Pulaski Technical College in North Little Rock. “The question, as always, is whether we will take it or squander it. The solar market has exploded upwards over the last decade in the country and in Arkansas. If we pull together as a community we have a shot, but if we are divided, then 50 years from now another former lieutenant governor of Arkansas will stand in front of Arkansans and describe how we blew it.”
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