Sustainable North

From The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Saturday, September 11, 2010: Gov. Sean Parnell says that if Alaska is to meet the ambitious goal of getting half of its electricity from renewable sources some day, it will have to make a major commitment to big hydroelectric project, such as the Susitna project. On a visit to Fairbanks [...]

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From APRN, Monday, August 23, 2010: A Southeast Alaska hydropower plant is closer to completion. A $9 million Alaska Energy Authority grant is the final piece of the funding puzzle for the Prince of Wales Island’s Reynolds Creek project. Listen online: Southeast Hydropower Plant Approaches Completion

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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 Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Saturday, May 1, 2010: Fort Yukon could turn to wood-fired power to ease its reliance on diesel fuel. Tanana could install wind turbines and start using half as much fuel within a few years. The Alaska Energy Authority published those scenarios and about 200 more, including cost estimates, this week. [...]

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From the Associated Press, Saturday, November 7, 2009: The city of Juneau has set new emissions goals for cars, homes and office buildings in the hopes of reducing pollution by 2012. The Juneau Empire reports the city hopes to drop pollution by 21 percent in the next three years. The Juneau Assembly says one percent [...]

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From the Associated Press, Thursday, November 5, 2009: The city of Angoon has been granted a preliminary permit for the Ruth Lake hydropower project. The 20 megawatt hydropower project is designed to produce low cost electricity for Angoon, and to eventually provide hydropower to other Southeast communities. Angoon Mayor Albert Howard says he’s looking for [...]

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From the Anchorage Daily News on Sunday, February 8, 2009: Gov. Sarah Palin plans to introduce a bill calling for creating a joint corporation of the six Railbelt electric utilities. Palin says such an entity could unite a “fragmented group of rival utilities” and could save rate payers $40 million annually. The utilities are Fairbanks-based [...]

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From the Anchorage Daily News on Sunday, February 1, 2009: An effort to find new sources of renewable “small hydro” power for the Railbelt is running into opposition from advocates of another, equally noble environmental cause: protection of the mountain headwaters of the fish-rich Kenai River. Electric Association, working with a private consortium, is studying [...]

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From the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner on Wednesday, January 28, 2009: Education leaders look to be sharpening their focus on energy research, a move spearheaded by tentative plans to build a 31,000-square-foot building dedicated to energy research — everything from wind and hydrogen to coal — at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. The plan is on [...]

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From the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner on Wednesday, January 28, 2009: A document submitted as a state energy plan falls short of its mark, while renewable energy projects submitted for funding might go too far, legislators said. Members of the House Energy Committee, including Rep. Jay Ramras, R-Fairbanks, were critical of the Alaska Energy Authority’s state [...]

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