Low water worries ease in SE

Worries over low water levels in Southeast hydro facilities due to summer drought have eased with recent rainfall. However, Ketchikan had to fire up its diesel generators early but an increase in water levels in Swan Lake should allow the diesels to be shut down in mid-November.

 Siemens modular LNG project

The Interior Gas Utility, of Fairbanks, has entered into an agreement with Siemens to investigate the company’s proposal for a modular liquefied natural gas plant at Houston, on the Parks Highway, to support delivery of trucked LNG to the Interior city. IGU’s board also decided to investigate an existing plan to expand the small LNG plant near Point MacKenzie, in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough, that now supplies the LNG being trucked up the Parks Highway. The utility board is asking for more information on Siemens’ estimated cost of delivery and the capital cost of expanding the existing plant.