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The funding boost for solar comes as legislators try to address a looming shortfall of Cook Inlet gas.
Members of Alaska’s congressional delegation and trade associations blasted the move as harmful to Alaska’s economy.
The bipartisan 32-8 vote sends House Bill 50, backed by Gov. Mike Dunleavy, to the Senate for further work.
Todd Lindley and Dan Rogers are running for seats held by Chair Sam Cason and board member Mark Wiggin.
The Alaska House of Representatives is set to vote for House Bill 50 on Wednesday, sending it to the Senate
The department finalized a rule requiring oil companies to pay more for drilling on public lands, a move aimed at saving taxpayers money.
The initiative, set to be finalized within days, marks one of the most sweeping efforts yet by Biden to limit oil and gas exploration on federal lands.
Utilities are facing a “massive time crunch” to make contract decisions as a shortfall of Cook Inlet gas looms.
A Biden administration decision about how the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge oil-development program should proceed is expected in the third quarter of this year, according to a document filed in federal court on Friday.
Both companies are building major projects, and senior officials told an industry audience that the future is bright for new oil development in Arctic Alaska.
A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals declined Tuesday to halt significant amounts of oil and gas work on and near Alaska’s Beaufort Sea coast despite concluding that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service erred when it granted permission for oil companies to harass nearby polar bears.
In January, when the temperature in Kotzebue dropped to minus 30 and below, multiple residents noticed that Vitus fuel thickened, clogged filters and stopped flowing through the heating systems.
Achieving 76% renewable power by 2040 would be an optimal scenario, the analysis found.
Tens of millions of dollars from the 2021 federal infrastructure bill will fund a four-year clean energy project in a region of Alaska that has some of the nation’s highest fuel prices.
MethaneSAT is the first of several satellites built to publicly track oil and gas companies’ methane emissions.
The Renewable Energy Alaska Project had requested the usage data of tens of thousands of individual customers of Chugach Electric Association to propose an alternative new price structure for the utility.
Solar arrays and run-of-river facilities would be built to replace diesel-based electricity. The Biden administration announced the selections on Tuesday.
The Alaska Gasline Development Corp. is proposing a phased approach to supply the Cook Inlet region with natural gas as a prelude to LNG exports to Asia.
The site for the proposed Little Mount Susitna Wind farm northwest of Anchorage receives more wind as temperatures fall, which would reduce natural gas demand at critical times, the developers and a utility say.
Sutton Republican Rep. George Rauscher says he wants to encourage innovation without leaving fossil fuels behind. But one critic is blasting his new bill as a “jumbled mess.”
Renewable Energy Alaska Project wants state regulators to step in and force Chugach Electric Association to hand over detailed data on customers’ energy consumption.
The decision and order issued by the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission came two days after the commission ordered Hilcorp to pay $452,100 for separate violations concerning unauthorized injections into oil pools within the Prudhoe Bay Unit.
Enstar warned that prices could skyrocket from imported gas as discussions turn to incentivizing more production.