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In her 2016 self-published book, A Different Arctic Paradigm: Searching for Energy in the Far North, Gwen Holdmann opened with a question: “Well over a million people in the Arctic live in communities and locations where electric grids or pipelines do not reach. So what is...
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Seniors compete in Native Youth Olympics (Photo: Ana McMenamin) Each year, S.N.A.P. Meet returns to take over the Newhalen School for a week in April, bringing together students from all over the Lake and Peninsula School District. Newhalen School Principal, Ed Lester, has...
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Staff at Alaska’s rural electric utilities work hard to keep their power on and communities running through difficult conditions 365 days a year. Keeping up with preventive maintenance and reporting requirements alone is often a huge task, much less integrating new...
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Every day, small staffs of rural Alaska utilities pull off the Herculean and often unseen work of maintaining electricity, water, and bulk fuel services to their communities. Every aspect of community life relies on their meticulous completion of operator logs, oil changes,...