Alaska’s Power Potential “Great"
Low Cost Power Is Need—Sen. Bartlett
Describing Alaska today, as re
gards power, as a “small boy look
iug up,” Sen. E. L. Bartlett spoke
before the American Power Asso
ciation in convention at Seattle,
Washington Tuesday. He outlined
some of Alaska’s power potential,
quoting the North Pacific Division
of the Corps of Engineers, who
list 90 major Alaska power sites.
Dow cost power is Alaska’s great
need, he stated.
“The Corps,” he said, “added up
the prime power potential of these
sites to more than 12 million
kilowatts—only a little less than
the installed capacities of all fed
eral hydroelectric plants in the
United States.’
lhe Senator cited the proposed
Rampart Canyon power project on
the Yukon River. ‘‘If a high clam
were erected at Rampart Rapids,”
the Senator quoted the engineers
as saying, “a lake covering the
entire Yukon Flats would be cre
ated. Rampart would provide a
prime power supply of some 3 3/4
million kilowatts.” Its installed ca
pacity would be about 5 million
kilowatts.
Engineers, he said, state it
weald take 13 years to build, but
that Rampart offers true low cost
poblic power—2 to 4 mills per
kilowatt-hour at the site.
Citing Alaska’s hydroelectric
potential to be more than 17 3/4
million kilowatts of installed capa
city, he said that less than one
per cent is developed now. .
Alaska needs low-cost power to
develop, Sen. Bartlett said. He
paid tribute to the Rural Electri
fication Administration hi provid
ing the power needs of Alaska to
this point. “As of last March 31,”
he said, “the REA has loaned a
total of $43,845,000 for Alaska
generation and distribution facili
ties. REA has accounted for 33,
100 kilowatts of installed capa
city in our state.”
Sen. Bartlett took the Federal
Administration to task for its lack
of assistance to the territory of
Alaska, stating its record was “a
sorry” one. He stated that now
that Alaska has become a state
aoes not mean that rederal re
sponsibiiity should end. Smal
power developments should b
built by cities or boroughs, hi
said, but the larger ones shoult
be federal projects.
The Senator listed many of the
potential power users, citing a
great increase in domestic use,
even to heating homes, and the
need for electricity to run deep
freezes, furnish light due to long
hours of darkness; military needs
which are now furnished by un
economical ^team systems genera
ted by oil; canneries; mines and
other industries, which are now in
Alaska and are to come.
“The low-cost power,” he sta
ted, “is a sky hook we can use to
pull our state up to prosperity.”
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