Curtis Thayer, the head of the Alaska Energy Authority, wrote to university researcher Gwen Holdmann saying he was “disappointed” she’d written a series of energy-focused opinion pieces without “sharing” them in advance. (Via Northern Journal)
Thayer and Holdmann, the founding director of the Alaska Center for Energy and Power, were the original vice chairs of the task force, which Dunleavy has charged with reducing the cost of electricity in the state.email correspondence between Thayer and gubernatorial aides
— Holdmann said she was notified that Dunleavy had removed her from the panel. She’s since been replaced by another official from the University of Alaska system. Holdmann, in a phone interview this week, reiterated that she is still assisting the task force but said she has not been given an explanation for her removal.
It’s likely, she added, that the action was related to her opinion pieces, in which she explored different options for modernizing Alaska’s electrical grid without directly endorsing specific options. But, she added, she thinks there may be additional reasons Dunleavy removed her.
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