
Cathy Giessel
50:56 - 51:30
"we looked at capping the price of gas to consumers. We looked at not allowing any cost overruns to be put on taxpayers, onto consumers, Alaska consumers"
“we looked at capping the price of gas to consumers. We looked at not allowing any cost overruns to be put on taxpayers, onto consumers, Alaska consumers”
They absolutely can be violated with overruns, overtime, and under-benefits, over-optimistic assumptions. So we looked at capping the price of gas to consumers. We looked at not allowing any cost overruns to be put on taxpayers, onto consumers, Alaska consumers. And we wrestled with who would regulate those tax— or those, uh, those prices of the gas. Who would regulate the tariff?
Enstar Natural Gas faces losing its primary gas supply in 2033 when its contract with Hilcorp expires, leaving Southcentral Alaska utilities with no Cook Inlet producer capable of matching the scale of investment that has kept the basin producing for the past decade.
