“The people of Texas should not have to pay these outrageous bills. Exorbitant costs should not be passed on to consumers who are not responsible for poor planning by state officials.” $3,000. $6,500. $7,000. $17,000. Those are just some of the sky-high electricity bills that Texans have reported receiving from their private utility providers in […]
Dear Neighbors, Today, for the second time, the Alaska House of Representatives failed to fund a new capital appropriations bill that allows Alaska to receive hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding. The funding for the bill failed Monday by a single vote. Senate Bill 2002 also included the much talked about “reverse […]
Washington, D.C. – Today, Congressman Don Young (R-AK) and Senator Dan Sullivan (R-AK) applauded Commissioner Andrew Wheeler’s announcement that the EPA plans to issue a rule in June relaxing air pollution standards for diesel generators in remote areas of Alaska. Diesel generators are the exclusive power source for many remote areas in Alaska. EPA […]
Yakutat once found quirky fame as a surfing destination for the adventurous. Now, residents are looking into capturing wave energy to provide the town’s power. Jeremy Kasper and Stephanie Jump, with UAF’s Alaska Center for Energy and Power, are investigating the best potential underwater-energy sites. Ocean waves can generate electricity as underwater devices convert […]
Power was knocked out to Emmonak AVEC customers on Tuesday after a fire broke out at the power plant there shortly after 10 am. Local responders were able to address the fire and extinguish the flames but not until the fire heavily damaged one of the generators that are housed in the building. By 1 am, […]
In 1961, with memories of Holocaust atrocities and the prosecution of Nazi officials at Nuremburg still fresh, psychologist Stanley Milgram undertook a series of now infamous experiments on obedience and reprehensible behavior. About two-thirds of Milgram’s nearly 800 study subjects, pressed by an authoritative experimenter, were willing to administer increasingly powerful electric shocks to an […]
Palmer, AK: MEA has started the first of ten engines at the new Eklutna Generation Station (EGS) power plant. This marks a major milestone in the plant’s commissioning process which started earlier this fall. ‘What a great day for our members,’ remarked MEA Board President, Elsie E. ‘Lois’ Lester. ‘We have been working towards this […]
Almost 400 Talkeetna homes were without power for a time on Thanksgiving day after a vehicle crashed into a power pole at the railroad crossing in Talkeetna early Thursday morning. Linemen with the Matanuska Electric Association did the repairs on the powerlines. Power to additional homes had to be cut to insure the safety of […]
A 6.0 earthquake struck California’s wine country early on Sunday morning rattling residents there at just before 3:30 am. Only a handful of people were injured in the quake with three people admitted for broken bones and a couple of others for heart attack admitted as a result of the rattler. Another 120 people were treated […]