Debbie Driscoll from AEL&P said Juneau’s been hit by unusually bad storms and icing conditions since the fall, though she understands customers’ frustration.
Energy & Mining
A second push for more solar on the Kenai Peninsula
Solarize the Kenai estimates that the average homeowner could cover half of their home’s energy needs with 12 panels and save over $10,000 in the next 15 years.
Indigenous leaders hopeful Interior nominee Rep. Deb Haaland will protect Yup’ik ways of life
Support for Haaland is widespread in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta Region, where many prominent female leaders have backed Haaland.
For Alaska’s railbelt, electric vehicle charging corridor may be on road to reality
The state plans to install level-three chargers, which can charge some cars in under an hour.
Alaska Native support for Interior nominee puts Murkowski on the spot
Deb Haaland, a Laguna Pueblo tribal member from New Mexico, would be the first Indigenous cabinet secretary. Alaska Native leaders have mounted a big campaign to confirm her.
Wilderness resort installs large solar array outside Denali National Park
It took two years for Camp Denali to install its new 90-kilowatt array at the end of the Park Road, near Wonder Lake.
Kaktovik Iñupiat Corporation misses deadline for seismic work in Arctic refuge this winter
The missed deadline effectively kills the corporation’s proposal to use seismic exploration to search for oil in part of the Arctic refuge’s coastal plain this winter.
Bethel tribe protests 15-day comment period for Donlin Gold water permits
The state granted Donlin Gold 12 water right permits after giving the public 15 days to comment. Some Y-K Delta residents claim that wasn’t enough time, especially with villages locked down to fight the pandemic.
Judges block work at ConocoPhillips’ huge Alaska project, casting cloud over ‘North Slope renaissance’
A federal appeals panel has halted work at one of Alaska’s biggest proposed North Slope oil fields, putting dozens of contractors out of work and costing ConocoPhillips, the project’s developer, millions of dollars.
State investment authority joins mining company to put $35M towards controversial Ambler Road
The proposed project would run roughly 211 miles from the Dalton Highway to the Ambler Mining District in the Northwest Arctic Borough.