Murkowski: Low Cost Energy Way to Spur Economy
September 30, 2011
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Trading barbs over Fire Island wind power
September 30, 2011
Jill Burke of Alaska Dispatch: A third floor room in an office building in downtown Anchorage was breezy Tuesday as dark-suited attorneys aired arguments for and against allowing a new wind farm close to Anchorage to sell power to the state’s largest electric utility. Chugach Electric Association, Inc. needs approval from the Regulatory Commission [...] Read More
Fire Island Wind Project, Chugach Electric Agreement Facing Tough Opposition
September 30, 2011
By Len Anderson, KSKA – Anchorage | September 28, 2011 This week, the power purchase agreement between Chugach Electric Association and the Fire Island Wind Project has come before the Regulatory Commission of Alaska for its needed approval. But if Tuesday’s opening statements are any indication, the [...] Read More
Kake Apartment for Elderly Receives Money to Improve Energy Efficiency
September 30, 2011
By Ed Ronco, KCAW – Sitka: An apartment building for senior citizens in Kake will get $50,000 from the federal government to improve energy efficiency. The Kake Elderly Apartment Building has 12 units and serves low income tenants over the age of 62. The money is from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Rural Development arm, [...] Read More
Pew Study: Department of Defense Accelerates Clean Energy Innovation to Save Lives, Money
September 21, 2011
From Alaska Dispatch: WASHINGTON, Sept. 21, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) is accelerating clean energy innovations in an effort to reduce risks to America’s military, enhance energy security and save money, according to a report released today by The Pew Charitable Trusts. “From Barracks to the [...] Read More
Delta High School installs wood chip biomass boiler
September 19, 2011
By Reba Lean of the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner: Workers are finishing construction on a wood chip biomass boiler at the Delta High School. The boiler will provide heat for the 77,000-square-foot high school building and possibly other buildings around the school in the future. The 5 million Btu boiler is the [...] Read More
Delta Wind Farm owners seek state certificate
September 19, 2011
By Dermot Cole of the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner: Businessman Mike Craft and his partners in a Delta wind-power project filed a request for a certificate of public convenience and necessity with the state, according to a filing with the Regulatory Commission of Alaska. One condition of a $2 million state grant they received [...] Read More
GVEA rates on the rise
September 19, 2011
By Dermot Cole of the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner: Electric rates are going up again because of higher fuel costs, according to documents filed by the Golden Valley Electric Association with the state. The cost to a consumer using 500 kilowatt hours a month will go from $111.96 to $116.42, under rates approved by [...] Read More
State Lawmakers Eye Norway For Energy Ideas
September 17, 2011
By Lori Townsend, APRN – Anchorage | September 1, 2011 About a dozen Alaska Lawmakers and others are in Norway looking at how the country develops it’s renewable and fossil fuel resources. Norway gets 98% of its energy for in country use from hydropower. They export their oil and gas to Europe and other markets, mainly [...] Read More
Superefficient Home With Big Ambitions, Built by Students on a Hoboken Lot
September 17, 2011
By JOANNA M. FOSTER of the New York Times: HOBOKEN, N.J. — On summer evenings, the running path along the riverfront here is clogged with businessmen on smartphones tripping over dog leashes and joggers weaving through a stream of strollers. It had gotten even more congested recently as curious pedestrians congregated around [...] Read More
