Alaska’s largest electric utility has once again filed a plan with regulators to create a small community solar farm in Anchorage, after an earlier attempt was rejected in 2019.
The Chugach Electric Association program would allow the utility’s members without their own rooftop solar array, such as renters, to benefit from renewable energy by subscribing to buy power from the solar farm, according to the utility’s Dec. 28 filing with the Regulatory Commission of Alaska.
The utility has proposed the program in response to member interest for more clean energy sources to reduce the dependence on natural gas that produces most of the utility’s power, the filing said.
The proposal comes amid concerns that natural gas for Chugach Electric and other utilities along Alaska’s Railbelt will need to be imported in…
