Nabholz Energy Company Provides Solar Power, Savings Across Arkansas

While various rural areas around Arkansas seem to have been invaded by cryptomining sites that are criticized for their massive power consumption, you may not have noticed the other side of the coin.

Two Arkansas communities — Nashville and Booneville — now have new solar energy arrays built, owned, and operated by Entegrity of Little Rock, a wholly owned subsidiary of Conway’s Nabholz Construction Corp. in Conway. Entegrity provides the power its solar arrays create at set rates per contract.

Entegrity’s 30-acre, $20 million arrays in Nashville generate 6.5 megawatts and are designed to offset electricity use for a combination of entities such as University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, Arkansas Division of Community Correction, and the City of Prairie Grove. Entegrity already completed energy improvements at the Fayetteville campus such as LED lighting and improved HVAC.

In Booneville, Entegrity’s 7-megawatt facility shares power for the City of Booneville, the Booneville School District, the Farmington School District, and Fayetteville Public Schools.

Entegrity activated another solar array in May, 2022 in Caraway that’s designed to offset 95% of Riverside School District’s energy consumption.

Arkansas’ new cryptomining sites are creating worry and confusion about their impact on the energy grid (among other issues), but Entegrity flips the coin. These new solar arrays across Arkansas are providing not only energy savings to those entities purchasing the power, but also steady revenue from property taxes and land leases.

Parent company 70-year-old Nabholz Construction Corp. being a well respected name across Arkansas (and a majority partner in Entegrity before it purchased the entire company) just sweetens the entire arrangement.

Photo, New Hampshire solar array: Jdietsch, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons