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Park Service Balks at Hydro Plan in Alaska.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, March, 2004
By Tim Bradner, Alaska Journal of Commerce, Anchorage Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Mar. 7--Dick Levitt owns Gustavus Electric Co. and he has what should be the Green Energy poster project for the Sierra Club.
Three miles from Leavitt's diesel-fueled power plant in Gustavus, a tiny community of 450 in northern Southeast Alaska, is a fast-flowing stream, a perfect site for a small hydro plant.
Goodbye polluting diesel, hello clean hydro.
Once he gets hydro power online, Levitt hopes to eventually lower Gustavus' electricity rates, now 49 cents per kilowatt-hour.
He sees a lot of potential for demand growth, staring with converting Gustavus's far-flung homes, now diesel and propane-fueled, to use electricity for...
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