Steve Harber
74:07 - 74:28
"if that's a detriment to other customers, we can shut them down and then they don't get it turned back on until they prove that they're going to be compliant. Um, so there's a lot of stop, a lot of guardrails in place."
“if that's a detriment to other customers, we can shut them down and then they don't get it turned back on until they prove that they're going to be compliant. Um, so there's a lot of stop, a lot of guardrails in place.”
- Speaker
- Steve Harber
- Timestamp
- 74:07 – 74:28
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Petersburg
- Captured at
- September 25, 2026
From the transcript
And that's what's putting us into the peak shaving. With this, our peak isn't going to change because when we start to approach that, I will tell whoever the operator is they need to shut down. And if they don't, all power already is invested in our department to go shut them down, whether they have a power sales agreement or an interruptible rate, if that's a detriment to other customers, we can shut them down and then they don't get it turned back on until they prove that they're going to be compliant. Um, so there's a lot of stop, a lot of guardrails in place. Um, if, if it doesn't happen, the worst case scenario is rate increases.
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