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JOINT ACTION AGENCY PROPOSAL
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EVENTS & DOCUMENT LOG |
| DATE | COMMENTS |
| 4/17/05 | Utilities struggle over plan to unite - Tim Bradner - Alaska Journal of Commerce - Alaska's Railbelt utility companies continue to disagree on how to structure an agreement that would lead to greater efficiency for power plant operation as well as provide a structure for jointly financing an estimated $1 billion to $2 billion in plant replacement and upgrading needed in the next 10 years. The debate over a unified system operator for the Railbelt surfaced again in Juneau April 5 in hearings before the House Special Committee on Economic Development. The hearings concerned a bill that would transfer state-owned energy assets in Southcentral and Interior Alaska to three utilities that would form a jointly owned organization to operate the facilities. House Bill 163, sponsored by Rep. Mike Kelly, R-Fairbanks, would transfer the state-owned Bradley Lake hydro project near Homer, a long-distance transmission line connecting Southcentral and Interior Alaska, and the 50-megawatt Healy clean coal power plant to a so-called joint action agency formed by three utilities. |
| 4/17/05 | Utilities must unite to finance plant replacement - TIM BRADNER - Anchorage Daily News - ECONOMY - Steve Haagenson, president of Golden Valley Electric Association in Fairbanks, put it bluntly in a talk to a state legislative committee in Juneau. "If we don't do something fast, we're headed for a train wreck in 10 years," he said. He was speaking of the need for Interior and Southcentral electric utilities to replace aging power-generation plants. "There is 1,000 megawatts of generation capacity that will have to be replaced in the next 10 years," Haagenson said. "The cost will be $1 billion to $2 billion. How are we going to finance that?" |
| 1/31/05 | State assets a sticking point in joint electric utility proposal - Tim Bradner - Alaska Journal of Commerce - Three regional electric utilities have signed agreements to form a joint action agency, a jointly owned entity to operate long-distance electric transmission systems and build new generating facilities. However, two other utilities and the Alaska Energy Authority, a state agency, disagree with the joint approach being taken by Chugach Electric Association, Anchorage's municipally owned Municipal Light and Power and Golden Valley Electric Association of Fairbanks. |
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