Chris Rose
49:18 - 50:00
"unless there's some major gas discovery that none of us know about, can get online fast enough, I unfortunately don't think that we're going to see that kind of replacement."
“unless there's some major gas discovery that none of us know about, can get online fast enough, I unfortunately don't think that we're going to see that kind of replacement.”
- Speaker
- Chris Rose
- Timestamp
- 49:18 – 50:00
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Alaska
- Captured at
- October 23, 2026
From the transcript
So when we do have a cold winter, we have it for heating. So unless there's some major gas discovery that none of us know about, can get online fast enough, I unfortunately don't think that we're going to see that kind of replacement. And of course, the concern then is, do we get into a longer-term contract with LNG that continues to kind of keep us from looking hard at some of the renewable opportunities the rail belt certainly has, particularly if, as Gwen pointed out, we get economies of scale and we do projects together. But then again, that requires the utilities to work together on bigger projects and transmission and all that. And, and we need a mechanism to work together more efficiently in that.
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