Arkansas Code Title 23. Public Utilities and Regulated Industries § 23-18-703. Authority of Arkansas Public Service Commission

(a)(1) The Arkansas Public Service Commission may consider, propose, develop, solicit, approve, implement, and monitor measures by electric and natural gas public utilities subject to its jurisdiction that cause the electric and natural gas public utilities to incur costs of service and investments that utilize, generate, or involve clean energy resources or renewable energy resources, or both.

(3) After proper notice and hearings, the commission may approve any clean energy resource or renewable energy resource that it determines to be in the public interest.

(4) If the commission determines that the cost of a clean energy resource or renewable energy resource is in the public interest, the commission may allow the affected electric or natural gas public utility to implement a temporary surcharge or utilize an existing commission-approved cost-recovery mechanism to recover the appropriate costs of such a resource until the implementation of new rate schedules in connection with the electric or natural gas public utility's next general rate filing in which such costs can be included in the electric or natural gas public utility's base rate schedules or for continued recovery through an approved appropriate tariff.