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Alaska: Renewable Energy Alaska Project

November 2, 2009 - 07:57 pm
NEWS FEED: Anchorage Daily News

Knowles in D.C., talking energy

By Alaska_Politics

From Erika Bolstad in Washington D.C. –

Former Gov. Tony Knowles was one of nearly a dozen Alaskans in Washington D.C. today to talk alternative energy at an Interior Department conference.

Knowles, a Democrat who was Alaska governor from 1994 to 2002, was invited to the event in his capacity as the head of the Tulsa, Okla.-based National Energy Policy Institute. The institute is working with the Washington D.C.-based think tank Resources for the Future to develop a ranking system for various energy alternatives. When they’re finished with their work next year, Knowles said they hope to have a standard for assessing the cost-effectiveness for various types of energy – as well as their potential for reducing imported oil and greenhouse gas emissions.

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July 30, 2009 - 06:55 pm
NEWS FEED: Anchorage Daily News

Iowa governor "heads to Palin country"

By Alaska_Politics

From Sean Cockerham in Anchorage –

The governor of Iowa, Chet Culver, is coming to Anchorage this weekend to talk “renewable energy and green job creation.”

He'll first speak tomorrow from 6 to 7 p.m. at a monthly forum the Renewable Energy Alaska Project (REAP) holds at the Anchorage museum.

Culver will then be the 5 p.m. keynote speaker at the annual Alaska Renewable Energy Fair being held on the Delaney Park Strip.

The Des Moines Register politics blog (which of course had to use as its headline “Culver heads to Sarah Palin country”) reports that REAP is paying for Culver’s travel expenses.

The Register writes that:

Iowa currently ranks second nationally in wind generation output with nearly 2,900 megawatts installed with 2,056 turbines across the state, and Iowa leads the nation in wind generation as percentage of total power output at 15%.

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