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27 Ιουλ 2023 · The federal government’s first experiment with rural electrification was the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), which began providing inexpensive electricity to rural residents of the Tennessee River valley in 1934.
Harvey Couch established what would become Arkansas Power & Light Company (AP&L), the state's first major power company, in 1913, but for many years only a small percentage of Arkansans living in munic ipal areas could afford AP&L service. Although Couch intended to bring '"Our History" and "Who We Are," Electric Cooperatives of Arkansas,
30 Νοε 2023 · The first hydroelectric power facility in Arkansas was Remmel Dam, built in 1924 by AP&L, now Entergy, on the Ouachita River at Jones Mill (Hot Spring County). This facility provided power to southern Arkansas and surrounding states and helped make AP&L a major utility corporation.
RURAL ELECTRIFICATION IN ARKANSAS 2 19 Few farmers had electric service. Power lines paralleled many of the state's major highways or stretched alongside railroad tracks. They delivered energy to the cities and larger towns. Lines to serve small com-munities, rural hamlets, and outlying farms were seldom to be found.
1 Ιουν 2023 · The Arkansas Power and Light Company (AP&L) was the primary electrical utility company for much of Arkansas from 1913 to 1989. It was the predecessor to Entergy Corporation, the electrical company now serving much of the state in the twenty-first century.
In 1937, the first electric cooperative utility pole was erected in Arkansas by First Electric Cooperative in Jacksonville, marking the development of a system that now covers 60 percent of the state’s land area. In 1942, the electric cooperatives pooled their resources to form a statewide association, Arkansas Electric Cooperatives, Inc ...
The Arkansas River Power Authority (ARPA) is a non-profit Public Power utility that supplies reliable wholesale electric power and transmission services to the southeast Colorado communities of Holly, La Junta, Lamar, Las Animas, Springfield and Trinidad. These ARPA members are also not-for-profit Public Power communities.
