Chugach Electric Association elects two “clean energy” board candidates, re-elects incumbent chair (Via Nat_Herz)
to integrate renewable power sources more quickly, amid warnings of an impending crunch in local natural gas supplies.
Fleek-Green, a national park superintendent who once managed the re-election campaign of Democratic former U.S. Sen. Mark Begich, received 6,725 votes. Chastain, an executive and engineering consultant, will serve two years to finish the term of a former board member who left before she was up for re-election.that it may not be able to keep supplying fuel at the same rate when current utility contracts expire over the next decade.
The results tilted in favor of the clean energy candidates, all three of whom endorsed a bill in the Alaska Legislature that would require the state’s urban utilities to produce 80% of their power from renewable sources by 2040.
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