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Arkansas approved a bill in 2025 that should stop utility companies — in theory — from passing along the cost of new energy production projects to consumers while also creating new jobs throughout the state.
The summary of the bill reads as follows: “Specifies when an investor owned electric utility or an investor owned natural gas utility may use a rider to recover strategic investments, provides that an electric distribution cooperative or an electric generation and transmission cooperative electing to file with the Public Service Commission a rider to recover strategic investments not otherwise included in rates previously approved by the commission may file an application to implement the rider, provides for special rate contracts.”
“It’s a very complicated subject, as we keep saying,” Sen. Jimmy Hickey, R-Texarkana, said of the bill, according to the Arkansas Advocate. “I know that I put the PSC probably in an untenable position because you’ve got legislators wanting certain things and the other ones the other way, but again, they’re our regulatory agency who’s been doing it. So I just felt that they had to weigh in.” (RELATED POLL: Do you think we need to bring back coal?)
Lead sponsor of the bill Sen. Jonathan Dismang, R-Searcy, said its passage aims to mitigate any spike in rates that are expected as the energy companies go into production of new energy infrastructure.
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