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Fayetteville presses SWEPCO rate case while advancing a 3.77 MW solar array to shield the city from higher utility bills
Summary
Environmental Director Peter Niergarten said the city intervened in SWEPCO's rate case (a requested 27.3% residential increase from Jan. 1, 2026), filed surrebuttal testimony and is monitoring settlement talks; he also described a 3.77 MW solar project intended to reduce the city's exposure to rate increases.
Peter Niergarten, Fayetteville's environmental director, updated the Environmental Action Committee on the city's intervention in the Southwestern Electric Power Company (SWEPCO) rate case and on a large solar array project intended to reduce the city's exposure to rising electricity costs.
Niergarten said SWEPCO has filed a proposal that would amount to a "27.3% residential rate increase starting 01/01/2026," which the city opposed by intervening at the Arkansas Public Service Commission. According to Niergarten, the city's testimony argued that SWEPCO's analysis of improvements to the Flint Creek…
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