Sustainable North

From the Golden Valley Electrical Association website
Affordable energy is on everyone’s minds these days. If you feel as if your electric bill has more than doubled in the last five years, you’re right.
There are two main reasons for this. First and most significant is the rising price of oil. The second and of lesser impact [...]

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From Wired News, Associated Press, May 4, 2008

This is the beginning of a new way of thinking about electricity, and the biggest change in how we get power since wires began veining the landscape a century ago.
For all the engineering genius behind the electric grid, that vast network ferrying energy from power plants through transmission [...]

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BY: Todd Hoener, GVEA Energy Efficiency Specialist
Fairbanks Daily Newsminer 4/3/08 Section A3
Of all your expenses, probably the toughest bill to manage is the electric bill. That bill is dynamic—you don’t pay for it upfront. If you don’t have the money for gas you might walk. If you can’t pay for heating fuel you might burn [...]

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