STUDY AUTHORS: Kevin Waring & Associates

This chapter describes existing services and facilities for supplying electrical power and petroleum fuels to the Bristol Bay communities, as determined based on various publications and online information resources.

Elements

  • 89% of households in the Pebble power study area rely on heating oil for home space heating. Prices for heating oil can exceeded $7.00 a gallon in the region and increased 42% between 2006 and 2010.
  • Most of the communities in the Pebble study area generate power using diesel generators. The cost of diesel in the region increased nearly 200% between 2002 and 2009.

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