0:18
Peter Asmus
5:00 - 5:18
“we discovered— and there are some definitional issues— that Alaska had more microgrids than any other state. In fact, basically everybody in Alaska gets their power from a microgrid.”
- Speaker
- Peter Asmus
- Timestamp
- 5:00 – 5:18
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Alaska
- Captured at
- October 23, 2026
From the transcript
And I said, "Oh, really? Well, can you help me flesh that out?" And she did. And lo and behold, we discovered— and there are some definitional issues— that Alaska had more microgrids than any other state. In fact, basically everybody in Alaska gets their power from a microgrid. And for those who don't know what a microgrid is, it is like it sounds.
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