
Speaker A
68:20 - 68:39
"right now it's inefficient. The backbone's inefficient. If we had power at the dock right now for cruise ships, we couldn't do it. With this, we can supply that power."
“right now it's inefficient. The backbone's inefficient. If we had power at the dock right now for cruise ships, we couldn't do it. With this, we can supply that power.”
Some of that restoration will be automated. The undergrounding, the cruise ship, you know, right now it's inefficient. The backbone's inefficient. If we had power at the dock right now for cruise ships, we couldn't do it. With this, we can supply that power.
Ketchikan City Council voted Friday to authorize applying for a $23 million U.S. Department of Energy grant that would upgrade the city's 34-kV transmission backbone, increase capacity from 20 to 35 megawatts, and enable future shore power for cruise ships, with the federal government covering 74% of project costs.
