Three electric utilities serving the Anchorage area — Chugach Electric Association, Municipal Light & Power and Matanuska Electric Association– on Monday announced a preliminary agreement to work together to provide lower-cost power.
Alaska's Energy Desk
Local residents lead the change to more renewable energy in the Arctic
Isolated communities across the Arctic are looking at relying more on renewable energy. Instead of bringing in experts, Arctic Remote Energy Networks Academy, or ARENA, is relying on local residents to lead the change.
Living in a dreamscape: How one couple forged a future on the Yukon River
John McPhee encountered Ulvi and Roberts two years after the couple’s arrival on the Yukon, when they were just getting the the hang of things.
“Made for me”: An Alaskan couple looks back at romance and upheaval in the wilderness
Corazza spent his first winter in the Alaska wilderness in 1975, when he was just 23. In “Coming into the Country,” John McPhee quotes Corazza saying he settled on the Alaska bush because “‘There ain’t no barbed wire up here.'”
From the bush to Congress, Willie Hensley straddles rural and urban divide in Alaska
Inupiaq politician, educator, reflects on the state 40 years ago and now
State agency could offer public comment period for fracking projects
The state agency that oversees oil and gas drilling is proposing a ten-day comment period for applications to use hydraulic fracturing on an oil or gas well. The proposal falls in between what environmental groups and the industry say is sufficient opportunity for public input before a well can be fracked in Alaska.