Aniak residents' electricity bills suddenly quadrupled this summer. The changes from state regulators should ease, but won't remove, the financial burden.
This summer has been a time of financial hardship in the Kuskokwim River village of Aniak afterin May, leaving its 500 residents with some of the highest electricity prices in the world.
These costs have not gone away. Commission spokesperson Steven Jones said Aniak customers will pay the amount back over time. Without that deficit, Aniak’s cost of power is about a third of what it was, which will bring it down to about the same rate as countries with the highest electricity prices in the world. A household in Aniak using 750 kilowatts hours of electricity will be charged $834.40 in a month.
“It’s difficult in general, you know, if a utility was saying or community saying a utilities not doing what they should and they yank the — they close down the utility, then who’s going to provide the service?” Jones said. “You know, that’s the big, big thing is the utility has to have a rate to operate.”
“We haven’t addressed the problem, we’ve spread the problem out over a longer period of time,” Gusty said. “It’s no longer a wound that is gushing; it’s now trickling, right? But the same amount of blood has been lost.”“I think it’s important to note, though, that everybody on the river received their fuel from the same set of barges,” Gusty said. “No other utilities had a 400% increase. So something’s going on.
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