Sustainable North

From Capital City Weekly, Monday, August 9, 2010: Residents of Juneau concerned with an increase in their monthly utility bills might find it easy to forget that in some Southeast communities, energy woes have been a constant issue for years. Rural areas like Angoon, heavily dependent on fossil fuels, face energy prices as high as [...]

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From The New York Times, Wednesday, July 28, 2010: With a cap on carbon dioxide an apparent nonstarter in the Senate these days, some clean energy and climate advocates have shifted their sights to a scaled-back but still ambitious goal: passage of a national renewable electricity standard. Such a law would require utility companies to [...]

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From The Associated Press, Thursday, July 22, 2010: Salmon processed at a Kodiak plant will be getting a new tag. Island Seafoods plans to tout the plant’s connection with sustainable energy on a new label. General manager John Whiddon tells the Kodiak Daily Mirror it may say, “sustainable fish produced by clean, sustainable wind turbine [...]

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From Alaska Dispatch: According to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Alaska Airlines is joining Boeing, a few northwest regional airports and Washington State University to study the feasibility of using biomass fuels in commercial aviation. The program, known as “Sustainable Aviation Fuels Northwest,”  is to investigate the creation of an aviation biofuel industry as one way for [...]

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From The Associated Press, Friday, June 9, 2010: The Naknek Electric Association is drilling a well near King Salmon to test the potential for geothermal energy. Association General Manager Donna Vukich told KTUU-TV the search for renewable energy from underground heat has been a 10-year, $20 million project. If successful it could serve villages across [...]

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From The Associated Press, Sunday, July 4, 2010: A Southeast Alaska hydroelectric project has come in millions over budget, but is expected to bring Juneau plenty of power for years to come. Alaska Electric Light & Power now is trying to persuade the Regulatory Commission of Alaska to let it raise its rates. The utility [...]

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From The Associated Press, Sunday, June 27, 2010: New transmission lines are critical to developing the alternative electricity production needed to meet demand in the coming years, governors of states in the West said Monday. The need for new energy development and dangers of climate change topped the agenda at the annual meeting of the [...]

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From The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Sunday, June 27, 2010: Eighty narrow strips of solar cells in the pattern of a giant xylophone blinked in the bright Fairbanks sunshine this week. The first solar laminate wall in Alaska covers the south side of the school district’s facility building downtown. Larry Morris pointed to a dip in [...]

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ASK A BUILDER  By CCHRC Staff The “Ask a Builder” series is dedicated to answering some of the many questions Fairbanks residents have about building, energy and the many other parts of home life. Q: Are there any regulations I need to know about before I put up a wind tower, or can I put [...]

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From The Associated Press, Thursday, June 23, 2010: Renewable energy development in Alaska is getting about half the funding lawmakers had approved after Gov. Sean Parnell decided to veto $25 million for projects he said can still be considered. The Legislature had approved $50 million for the Alaska Renewable Energy Grant Fund, but Parnell cut [...]

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