Alaska Energy Authority is committed to our rural neighbors Author: Curtis Thayer Published February 4
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Print article Nowhere in Alaska is the high cost of energy felt more than in rural communities. While all Alaskans endure high energy costs, the impact is especially burdensome on our rural neighbors. For 45 years, the Alaska Energy Authority (AEA) has played a significant role in reducing the cost of energy in rural Alaska. AEA is an essential partner with all of rural Alaska. Its policies emphasize community-based project management. Through innovation and collaboration, AEA provides the tools and the guidance necessary for all rural communities to embrace a better energy future.
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RCA still working on ERO governance
Complications over how to ensure balanced board structure are raising legal issues and delaying completion of draft regulations
Alan Bailey
for Petroleum News
Complications in resolving how the Regulatory Commission of Alaska can develop regulations that would ensure balance in the board of an electric reliability organization are continuing to further delay the completion of draft regulations for ERO certification, RCA Commissioner Antony Scott told a pu..
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Alaska Communications Systems will become a privately held company under a new, $332 million deal Published January 25
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Print article A Massachusetts-based communications company plans to acquire Alaska Communications Systems Group for $332 million, according to paperwork filed with Alaska regulators. The deal, involving
ATN International and filed with the Regulatory Commission of Alaska last week, comes after Alaska Communications rejected a smaller, $300 million deal from Australia-based Macquarie Capital and Chicago-based GCM Grosvenor. ATN invests in businesses in the U.S. and the Caribbean region, in markets that need significant infrastructure improvements, the company said in a statement announcing the deal in early January. ATN would be joined in its investment by minority partner Freedom 3 Capital, an investment firm with offices in New York and Kansas City.
Print article Chugach Electric Association’s $1 billion acquisition of Anchorage Municipal Light & Power has begun yielding the first savings for ratepayers, and
customers should see the impact on their bills starting this month, Chugach Electric officials said. That reduction will more than reverse a bump in costs (enacted before the acquisition) that 23,000 former
ML&P
ratepayers saw in autumn, officials said. They have now joined about 70,000 Chugach Electric ratepayers under a single system. Rates have moved downward since the Oct. 30 ML&P acquisition, said Arthur Miller,
executive vice president for regulatory and external affairs at Chugach Electric. The reduced rates went into effect on Jan. 1 and should be showing up on January bills, Miller said.
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Fairbanks developer Mike Craft proposes to build a 42-megawatt facility next door to his Delta wind farm that he says would produce enough power to meet local demand, including the city of Delta and nearby energy-hungry facilities like Fort Greely and its missile-defense base, as well as Pipeline pump station 9, and the Pogo gold mine, 37 miles northeast of town.
The 1.5-megawatt wind farm in Delta Junction is owned and operated by Mike Craft and his partners doing business as Alaska Environmental Power. Craft and his partner in a different venture, EcoGreen Generation, proposes to build a larger wind farm that would generate up to 42 megawatts near the existing facility.