Grid referee could ensure cheaper electricity for Alaska’s Railbelt

Power poles in Anchorage. (Photo by Antti T. Nissinen via Flickr)When Chris Rose makes tea in his downtown Anchorage apartment, he uses an electric stove to boil the water — pretty simple stuff. But Rose, who is the Executive Director of the Renewable Energy Alaska Project, knows how the electricity got to his stove is anything but simple.
“There is a backstory to this whole miracle that we call electricity that we use all the time in our lives but often just take for granted, becaus