Chugach Electric Association

Anchorage weighs Eklutna water deals after utilities decline to back its bid for a vote

Anchorage tied its Eklutna water deals to Chugach and MEA backing its bid for a hydro vote. They declined, and the mayor wants the deals approved without it.

by Walter AlaskaNews2w ago2 min read

Anchorage sets Oct. 28 open house on Eklutna pumped storage options

Anchorage holds an open house Oct. 28 on two dam designs for Eklutna Lake, where the city gets 90 percent of its drinking water and faces a 2027 deadline on pumped storage.

by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min read

Regulators cut Chugach's Beluga River gas price after Chugach asked for an increase

Chugach asked regulators to nudge its Beluga River gas price up a penny. After staff found errors, regulators cut it by 39 cents instead, starting Thursday.

by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min read

Chugach will charge you less at night, if you actually move your usage

Chugach will sell you cheaper power overnight and pricier power all day long. Sign up and change nothing, and you end up paying a little more.

by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min read

Anchorage commission weighs 12.5 acres of heavy-industrial rezoning

Anchorage's planning commission will consider recommending that the Assembly rezone 12.5 acres to heavy industrial.

by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min read

Southcentral is 3 Bcf short this winter, and producers told lawmakers the gas runs out in 2029

Southcentral Alaska faces a natural gas shortage by winter 2029 unless it imports liquefied natural gas or taps North Slope supplies, Hilcorp and Chugach told lawmakers Thursday.

by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min read

Anchorage clears a substation plat on quake-prone Port ground

Anchorage approved a plat for a new Chugach Electric substation at the Port on ground its own maps rate as highly likely to fail in an earthquake.

by Walter AlaskaNews1mo ago2 min readFrom Sep 2

Follows: Port of Alaska seeks road realignment for Chugach Electric substation

Port of Alaska advances a new substation to power its next cranes

The Port of Alaska is building a new substation to power its next-generation cranes — and it has to be running by 2028, or the cranes can't operate.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min read

Follows: Port of Alaska seeks road realignment for Chugach Electric substation

Anchorage weighs $470,000 no-bid sale of Government Hill lot

Anchorage would sell Chugach a Government Hill lot for $470,000 without taking bids, about $49,000 under what a broker valued it at in June.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min read

The Mental Health Trust granted Chugach an easement without saying what it charged

Chugach Electric won approval to bury power lines under Trust land at Community Park Loop, a move that will boost capacity for northeast Anchorage customers.

by Walter AlaskaNewsadded 2mo ago2 min read

Port of Alaska seeks road realignment for Chugach Electric substation

Anchorage Platting Board will vote Wednesday on letting the Port of Alaska shift an unbuilt road so Chugach Electric can build a power substation on port land.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read

Chugach wants another cent for the gas it sells to itself

Chugach wants to raise the price it charges itself for its own gas to $8.14. It was $2.73 in early 2021, and surcharges are driving the climb.

by Walter AlaskaNewsadded 2mo ago1 min read

Enstar tells legislators it's 18 days short of gas for winter

Enstar told legislators it's 18 days, about 3 Bcf, short of gas for a normal winter after two supplies fell through, with deals underway still leaving a gap.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago3 min read

Alaska regulators may open the grid to far more home and community solar

Alaska regulators may raise the rooftop and community solar limit from 1.5% to 20% of a utility's demand, opening the grid to far more customer-owned power.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min read

A faulting cable under the Loussac Library would cost the city a permanent easement

Anchorage Assembly will vote Tuesday on letting Chugach Electric replace a failing power cable under Loussac Library at no cost to the city.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read

Anchorage planning commission approves Chugach substation rebuild over neighbor's objection

Anchorage planners approved Chugach Electric's Campbell Lake substation rebuild despite a neighbor's objection to transformers 25 feet from their home.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min read

Follows: A Chugach substation rebuild draws a neighbor's concern over transformers near a home

A Chugach substation rebuild draws a neighbor's concern over transformers near a home

A Chugach substation rebuild in south Anchorage draws a neighbor's concern over two nearby transformers, with a hearing before the planning commission Monday.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago2 min read

Chugach seeks industrial zoning for its campus, dropping a buffer

Chugach wants to rezone its Anchorage North Campus to heavy industrial to match its use, dropping a green buffer meant for a highway that likely won't come.

by Walter AlaskaNews2mo ago1 min read

Anchorage moves to sell an old Government Hill fire station to Chugach Electric

Anchorage would sell the old Government Hill fire station to Chugach Electric for $470,000, no bidding, since Chugach already leases it for a communications tower.

by Walter AlaskaNews3mo ago1 min read

Neighbors got the tower dropped from a south Anchorage substation rebuild

After a two-year fight, neighbors got Chugach to drop a 65-foot tower from a south Anchorage substation rebuild. A smaller fence-and-noise dispute is left.

by Melinda Communities.Newsadded 2mo ago1 min read

Chugach wants to trade a planned greenway for heavy industrial zoning

Chugach Electric wants to erase a planned greenway near downtown Anchorage and rezone the land heavy-industrial. City planners say yes; the Assembly decides.

by Walter AlaskaNews3mo ago1 min read

Chugach Electric proposes 3.5% rate hike to cover $11.2 million shortfall

Chugach Electric seeks a 3.5% rate increase to cover an $11.2 million shortfall, adding about $4.55 to typical monthly bills, with a decision expected by November 2026.

by Walter AlaskaNewsadded 3mo ago2 min read

Chugach and Glenfarne Alaska LNG signed a non-binding LOI — a step, not a contract

Chugach and Glenfarne signed a non-binding letter of intent. The pipeline still hasn't broken ground. One of many Chugach hedges.

by Maggie AlaskaNewsadded 4mo ago2 min read

Chugach is pursuing four hydroelectric projects to hedge against Cook Inlet gas decline

Chugach's gas-to-renewables shift has its first concrete entries: four hydro projects on four Southcentral creeks, 52 MW total.

by Walter AlaskaNewsadded 4mo ago2 min read

Alaska's biggest utility may start importing the gas its own region once exported

Then on the sixth day, god said: "Let there be LNG" And it was goooooood

by Bill AlaskaNewsadded 4mo ago2 min read