UtilityWatch is revamping its web page in new directions.

ENSTAR.  More disturbing info is becoming available regarding Enstar's proposed bullet line.  This high-cost low volume line could mean extremely high prices for gas users and also help kill the All-Alaska gasline that most Alaskans support.  An All-Alaska line would be a high-volume line that would likely bring lower cost gas to Southcentral Alaska.  Stay tuned for more soon.

MEA.  The new board has moved to ensure that management works for them, and not the other way around.  They seem to be doing well, attempting to get the existing management, that led the previous board to an energy dead end, to re-set to a positive direction.  Fact is, the "Integrated Resource Plan" of 2007 is dead.  There will be no coal plant, and there is no source of gas for a a proposed 100mw gas plant.  Hopefully the new Railbelt IRP will provide MEA with a new set of good options and ideas.  The focus should be finding good energy options, including renewables.

Perhaps MEA will become more open, more fair, more cooperative with other utilities, and invite the public for their best ideas.  

MTA.  Things have been pretty quiet for a few years, but with such a fast-changing industry, we never know when a new consumer issue will arise.