{"id":4899,"date":"2015-09-25T18:26:01","date_gmt":"2015-09-26T01:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/washington-company-exploring-gas-service-in-southeast-alaska\/"},"modified":"2015-09-25T18:26:01","modified_gmt":"2015-09-26T01:26:01","slug":"washington-company-exploring-gas-service-in-southeast-alaska","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/washington-company-exploring-gas-service-in-southeast-alaska\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington company exploring gas service in southeast Alaska"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>KETCHIKAN \u2014 <\/strong>A Washington state-based utility is looking to southeast Alaska for a launch of natural gas, which would primarily be delivered to homes for heat and personal use.<\/p>\n<p>The Ketchikan Daily News reported that Avista, a natural gas and hydropower utility based in Spokane, Washington, bought Juneau power company Alaska Electric, Light and Power last year for $170 million. That purchase has paved the way for the utility to consider bringing natural gas to Alaska\u2019s southeast region, which would begin in Juneau.<\/p>\n<p>Avista official, Nolan Steiner, told last week\u2019s Southeast Conference that the company is still in the process of investigating how to bring natural gas to the area.<\/p>\n<p>The project with its focus on home heat would include digging up streets, converting homes and building storage facilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KETCHIKAN \u2014 A Washington state-based utility is looking to southeast Alaska for a launch of natural gas, which would primarily be delivered to homes for heat and personal use. The Ketchikan Daily <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/\">News<\/a> reported that Avista, a natural gas and hydropower utility based in Spokane, Washington, bought Juneau power company Alaska Electric, Light and Power [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[230],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-4899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4899"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=4899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}