Overall, the issues Golden Valley Electrical Association linemen worked on this past snowy weekend were small and isolated, with the largest outage leaving 1,100 members without power, but most of
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When the Swan Lake Fire tore through the Kenai back in 2019, it heavily damaged a 39-mile stretch of power line in the northern part of the peninsula known as the SSQ Line. The damage cut off the flow of electricity from the Bradley Lake Hydroelectric facility, near Homer. Which in turn impacted ratepayers with all six Railbelt utilities – including Golden Valley’s, whose board of directors OK’d a 20 percent rate increase a little over a year ago.
Smoke billows after firefighters set backfires in an area north of the Sterling Highway and power-transmission lines in September 2019 to burn vegetation and slow the growth of the Swan Lake Fire. The fire burned167,164 acres on the Kenai Peninsula.