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James Danly
233:53 - 234:25
“this historic investment is going to increase the reliability by paying for, for enhanced transmission distribution. It's going to produce more generation so that there's greater amounts of electrons on the grid. And it is also— and this is a critical thing that has never been done before to this scale— it's going to invest in energy workforce here in Alaska so that the 28,000 energy workers you already have are going to be plussed up so that Alaska can meet the energy challenges going into the future.”
- Speaker
- James Danly
- Timestamp
- 233:53 – 234:25
- Transcript
- Facebook video 1634061471462801
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Anchorage
- Captured at
- October 23, 2026
From the transcript
And this historic investment is going to increase the reliability by paying for, for enhanced transmission distribution. It's going to produce more generation so that there's greater amounts of electrons on the grid. And it is also— and this is a critical thing that has never been done before to this scale— it's going to invest in energy workforce here in Alaska so that the 28,000 energy workers you already have are going to be plussed up so that Alaska can meet the energy challenges going into the future.
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