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Lisa Murkowski Urges Trump Nominees To Facilitate Ongoing Modernization Of Alaska's Energy Grid
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5/12/2025
During a Senate Energy Committee hearing last week, Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) spoke about the ongoing energy grid modernization efforts in Alaska.
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First to Mr. Hossfeet. Carbon capture. We've got some key projects that we're
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anticipating as we're looking to process North Slope natural gas. This is central
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to the viability of our Alaska LNG project. DOE has already been awarded
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funding for two CCS initiatives. One is ASRC's carbon safe hub and then a direct
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air capture feasibility study. Both of these are in limbo right now. We're
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concerned that they may be on a DOE list of cuts going to the White House. It's
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something again that we have been working with industry in a very
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collaborative way, working with the agencies and we look at this piece as
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really very strategic for the energy initiative that we have up there. I know
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you're not in yet, but I'm just asking for your commitment to look critically at
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this, have the ability to to defend these Alaska-based projects given their
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strategic energy importance. Senator, thank you for the question. As you stated, I'm
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not in so I don't know the details, but I do commit to looking at projects that are
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part of the department. Carbon capture, especially for use for extracting
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additional hydrocarbons is something that I'm passionate about. Prudhoe Bay
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benefited greatly because you didn't have a place to put the gas for a long time
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and you re-injected it, resulting in higher recovery. My home state of the
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Bakken is recovering somewhere between 10 and 15 percent of the oil in place and
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CO2 is a potential solution to inject into the reservoir to recover more oil.
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We've got tremendous resource in our country. Alaska's blessed greatly with
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resources across the entire state and CO2, if available at affordable levels, can be a
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great injectant, can be a great solution to recover more of that resource. We look
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forward to sharing more of the details about these projects and and the
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opportunity to show you firsthand. Thank you, Senator. Let me turn to you, Ms.
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Jereza. As you know, map shows we're not connected, we're not connected by
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geography to the lower 48 and our grid is not part of a continental grid and so we
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have some unique reliability and affordability challenges. Our grid is
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what we call the rail belt, so it's goes up as far as the railroad and that's and
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then kind of comes back down the other way, but we have we have aging
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infrastructure, aging transmission infrastructure that we're dealing with.
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We've got limited redundancy, we've got high cost to our rate payers, so I need you,
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and again, same point that I've just made previously, I understand you're not there,
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but we have a grid modernization effort that is underway. Significant grant funding
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that came a couple years ago to help us with this with this integration of this
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transmission grid to kind of boost it up, to allow it to take us at least forward
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for the next decade or so. So I just need your commitment to look critically at what
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our needs are in Alaska, again, when we're not part of anybody at anybody else's
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interrelated grid. Senator, it would be my pleasure to do that. I actually was
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fortunate enough to go to Cordova and see the great innovations that are
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happening at Cordova Electric, so I can't wait to go back. Yeah, good. It's confirmed.
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You will have that invitation. And, and finally, Mr. Doffermeyer, I know you've got a
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little bit of a connection to Alaska through your, through some of your law
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school buddies who are very focused on Alaska, Caleb Frelick, who is around here.
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He speaks highly of you by the way. We saw in the last administration just a torrent
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of decisions and regulations from interior that were absolutely contrary to what we
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passed into law here in Congress. It was, it was pretty tough and this was on our,
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this was on our petroleum reserve, it was on the non-wilderness portion of the
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coastal plain, it was on the Ambler access project, our public land orders. We've got
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a whole list of them. I just need your commitment and I hope that this is the
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easiest question that you will ever get. Your commitment to ensure that interior
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returns to following the law. The law as it is written if you are confirmed as
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solicitor. Yes ma'am. Wow. See how easy that was. Easy now. I appreciate that because we
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feel like we're pretty clear here in our policies and then when it is not, and
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that's not followed through on the other end, great frustration. So look forward to,
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to seeing you keep that commitment. Thank you Mr. Chairman and I appreciate the
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opportunity to blast in at the very end. Thank you. Thank you.
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