Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins
48:40 - 49:31
“the legislature in the state of Alaska should work to take steps to create what I think energy wonks refer to as unified economic dispatch, so that the cheapest electron is going to the consumer”
- Speaker
- Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins
- Timestamp
- 48:40 – 49:31
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Alaska
- Captured at
- September 8, 2026
From the transcript
Ultimately, I think it's, it's important that the rail belt electric grid behaves like a rational market. And if you have an independent power producer that is developing a project and wants to sell electrons at a competitive price into that grid, that they should have the means to do so. And the market should behave in a rational manner and compete for the cheapest possible power. And right now, because the grid is balkanized into these 4 different co-ops, you don't have, I think, a rational market response the way there should be. And I think the legislature in the state of Alaska should work to take steps to create what I think energy wonks refer to as unified economic dispatch, so that the cheapest electron is going to the consumer, going to the ratepayer in a rational way, and that that is the direction we should go.
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