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Fairbanks-based Golden Valley Electric Association is working with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory on a plan to shut down one of the state’s last coal-fired power plants. The utility will replace Healy Unit 2 with wind power to reduce the co-op’s reliance on price-volatile fossil fuels, which generate 90 percent of its electricity. The goal is to stabilize and reduce rates that are among the highest in the country. ....
A Fairbanks man and his Lower 48 business partner are advancing plans to build what could become Alaska’s biggest wind farms, one each outside Anchorage and Fairbanks. Andrew McDonnell, formerly an oceanographer at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, and Matt Perkins, an engineer from Nevada, are taking steps to build wind farms that could be several times more powerful than ....