Philip Wight

Prof of History, Arctic & Northern Studies @UAFairbanks. Views my own. Energy & Enviro historian⚡

[Philip Wight @PhilWight]

@carl_lenox I've had similar problems with my Rheem HPWH. Very disappointing.

[East Anchorage Book Club Podcast @EastAncBookClub]

Erin Baldwin Day is the founder of the Mutual Aid Network of Anchorage (MANA) & organizer of the Anchorage Housing Club. We discuss eviction prevention, tenants’ rights, & how to increase AK housing. Listen here: https://t.co/e9cXiTLlUM #AlaskaHousing #AnchorageHousing #ancgov

[InfraNorth: Building Arctic Futures @InfraNorthERC]

🚧 In #Alaska, there is a history of not building roads. Learn more in our latest #InfraNorth blog post, where Peter Schweitzer contextualizes the #AmblerRoad controversy: https://t.co/YfRVy6WOdd
@univienna @sosci_univie @AustrianPolar

[Philip Wight @PhilWight]

@Alaska213 I disagree with the policy approach here but I appreciate that you've thought about this and have some ideas. We certainly need to be wise in how our country spends and invests our money.

[Philip Wight @PhilWight]

Big news for Interior Alaska: GVEA has been awarded $100 million for a 16 MW solar farm in Nenana (it will be the largest in Alaska), transmission upgrades & a large battery to regulate wind & solar. This will displace a lot of oil & help stabilize rates
https://t.co/UdlRqivyEH

[Philip Wight @PhilWight]

@username_eunik @pegharpham1 Falsehoods all around. Grid tied solar exists in all 50 states. And the costs of energy sources are well documented. Coal is anything but cheap, both for your wallet and public health: https://t.co/k0H0995mFL

[Philip Wight @PhilWight]

@username_eunik @pegharpham1 The life of a solar array is warranted for 25 years but they typically last much longer. Solar is the cheapest every source invented by humans. You can go burn rocks but the rest of us want a liveable planet

[Philip Wight @PhilWight]

@pegharpham1 BS. Your electric bill has not gone up 700% in the past 15 years. That means if you paid $50 in 2008 it'd be $400 today. https://t.co/WblwMCN3L0

[Philip Wight @PhilWight]

@Alaska213 Which government service that you rely on would you like to cut?

[Philip Wight @PhilWight]

@rickc137129 Spring has the highest yearly production in Fairbanks due to albedo

[Philip Wight @PhilWight]

"The announcement comes about a year after the administration announced $11 billion in IRA funds to boost rural renewables... which the administration said would be the largest cash injection into rural electrification since the New Deal of the 1930s."

[Philip Wight @PhilWight]

Useful additional context on the federal funding announced yesterday: "The two largest awards will go to battery energy storage systems in Fairbanks, Alaska, and the Soldotna Substation in Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula, both of which will receive $100 million."
https://t.co/34Put0tbIr

[Philip Wight @PhilWight]

@johnw612 Yes absolutely. I imagine cooperation with ANCs gave the project a competitive advantage. To my knowledge we have not seen this often in the past, so could be a fruitful new direction

[Philip Wight @PhilWight]

@rickc137129 Yep Sun doesn't shine at all up here

[Philip Wight @PhilWight]

@pegharpham1 A fair amount of inflationary pressure on rates comes from the variability of fuel sources like oil. The more oil we can displace the better for rates and rate stability

[Philip Wight @PhilWight]

@realmsnatalie Wait are you serious? Like the panels won't make any electrons in winter? What about a night? First I've heard of this

[The Economist @TheEconomist]

An energy-rich future is not just some environmentalist fever dream. Our special issue explores how the exponential rise of solar power will change the world https://t.co/4rJ2lJfF2t

[Brian Deese @BrianCDeese]

In 2024Q1, clean mfg, energy & industry made up 7.4% of private fixed investment in structures and equipment.

That's above investment in oil and gas, but more significantly it continues the trend of rising *total* investment in clean energy as a % of structures/equipment PFI.

[David Reamer @ANC_Historian]

1988 "Skagway in 1898" oil on canvas by Thomas Kinkade (1958–2012). Via Bonhams #alaskahistory #alaska #skagway

[Lois Parshley @LoisParshley]

Sarah Wallace was just starting dinner when the ground began to vibrate. The rumble built. She ran out into the street, where she learned what felt like an earthquake was actually the house behind hers colliding into their duplex.