Sustainable North

From the Fairbanks Daily Newsminer June 7, 2008

A new University of Alaska Anchorage study helps explain why households in some rural Alaska villages pay up to 100 percent more than others for home heating oil.

The study by the university’s Institute of Social and Economic Research was conducted for the Alaska Energy Authority, which is charged with reducing the costs of energy in the state. The energy authority wants the research to help identify ways to hold down future energy prices, according to an ISER news release.

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