Chris Rose
31:38 - 32:09
“one of the issues that the rail belt really faces is that it is not operating as an integrated grid.”
- Speaker
- Chris Rose
- Timestamp
- 31:38 – 32:09
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Alaska
- Captured at
- October 23, 2026
From the transcript
And get to a place where others are already. As you mentioned, I moved to Portugal last year, and this grid is 71% renewable electricity for over 10 million people. And that's because they operate this whole place as an integrated grid. And that's one of the issues that the rail belt really faces is that it is not operating as an integrated grid. And it's, it's something that I think is born out of the fact that when we started developing electrification in Alaska, it was a great big deal to have all these different utilities set up in places like the Kenai Peninsula and Fairbanks and Anchorage.
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