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Today is Party at the Plaza, an annual benefit event by Arkansas Hospice to raise money for the Arkansas Hospice Foundation mission.The event is scheduled to ta

Regional power grid operator Southwest Power Pool of Little Rock elects two new members of its independent board of directors and reelects one existing director to another term.

Barbara Sugg, president and CEO of Southwest Power Pool, is in the 2023 class of Top 100 Women of Impact in Arkansas from the central region.

Seven western utilities have committed to joining the nonprofit, the first major expansion of SPPs RTO service territory since October 2015.

Arkansas is set to see its first wind farm this year or next, a $300 million scattering of 500-foot-tall turbines with the capacity to generate 180 megawatts of electricity.

SPP members and its board have embraced an advisory group’s report on a fast-approach future grid and directing work to address the group’s recommendations.

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On April 1, 2020, Barbara Sugg became president and CEO of Southwest Power Pool, the not-for-profit electric grid market manager based in Little Rock.

In another report, SPP found that lessons learned from the February 2021 blizzard were key to meeting the challenges of the December 2022 extratropical cyclone dubbed Winter Storm Elliott.

The Southwest Power Pool and Big River Steel executives will help drive innovation in critical industries in the state, Arkansas Research Alliance leadership said.