Antony Scott
40:49 - 41:41
"one of the things that we really want to solve is making sure that Golden Valley Electric has access to gas imports on the same commercial terms that any of the parties south of the range do. Because that will maximize the benefits of a future unified economic dispatch arrangement, because no party which did have access to gas could use their market power to extract rent associated with a gas cost uplift."
“one of the things that we really want to solve is making sure that Golden Valley Electric has access to gas imports on the same commercial terms that any of the parties south of the range do. Because that will maximize the benefits of a future unified economic dispatch arrangement, because no party which did have access to gas could use their market power to extract rent associated with a gas cost uplift.”
- Speaker
- Antony Scott
- Timestamp
- 40:49 – 41:41
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Anchorage
- Captured at
- October 7, 2026
From the transcript
But that's you know, what that process is intended to do. But one of the things that we— I just touched on in terms of the transmission loading and the issue of gas is as we look forward to LNG imports, one of the things that we really want to solve is making sure that Golden Valley Electric has access to gas imports on the same commercial terms that any of the parties south of the range do. Because that will maximize the benefits of a future unified economic dispatch arrangement, because no party which did have access to gas could use their market power to extract rent associated with a gas cost uplift. Right. Unified dispatch is just looking at the steel in the ground, so to speak, and the cost of operating that rather than arbitraging around natural gas.
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