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...6 million to $7 million ? tremendous benefit to Juneau."Sitka could receive state funding that could keep the local utility off of diesel and on steady-priced hydroelectric power. AEL&P received $2 million in state funding toward an...
KENAI - A storage facility designed to give local utilities more consistent access to natural gas throughout the year has been injecting gas into its storage reservoir and is expected to...
...it's good to hear we might not need to start from scratch to begin solving this problem.Many decades ago, state and local utility managers saw that Fairbanks could lower its costs by building a power line to connect to Southcentral Alaska's gas-fired...
...Fairbanks suffers from a dependence on oil for both heating and electric generation. As oil prices have risen, local utility costs have mirrored those increases in the Interior.The cost of heating oil hit its highest point this year, according...
...friction at times, but there's little question in our minds that we have some extraordinary folks working at our local utility. We want to recognize AEL&P for having the human assets, materials and infrastructure in place to be responsive...
...of money when you're not working," said Lundy, who is unemployed.Then came the phone call this week from the local utility. A representative of Alaska Electric Light and Power Co. told Lundy's wife that an anonymous donor had dropped...
...everything we do depends on it. The electric grid - that complex combination of power plants, transmission lines, and local utilities - is what we rely on for our electricity. And we know all too well what happens when there is a power failure. Like...
...of the Nikiski plant might stretch out the region's gas reserves for a few more years, but it's not certain if local utilities will be able to take advantage of the gas that would have been exported. If the two companies that own the Nikiski...
...to reveal the output of individuals. Pick Anchorage, and the carbon calculator automatically determines that the local utility gets 11 percent of its power from renewable resources, in this case, hydroelectric. Village utilities generally...
...half-inch of rain fell by early afternoon and winds gusted to 40 mph, making for miserable working conditions. Local utility workers and crews brought in to assist them restored power to about 200 more homes as of 3 p.m. Tuesday. But another...