{"id":6303,"date":"2008-05-23T18:18:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-23T18:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/juneau_power_crisis_brings_stark_savings_measures\/"},"modified":"2008-05-23T18:18:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-23T18:18:00","slug":"juneau_power_crisis_brings_stark_savings_measures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=6303","title":{"rendered":"Juneau Power Crisis Brings Stark Savings Measures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One month after an avalanche knocked out its connection to a hydroelectric dam, much of Juneau, Alaska, is still relying on diesel back-up generators. Residential electricity rates have gone up about 400 percent.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, residents and the city have embarked on an extraordinary conservation campaign. Compact fluorescent light bulbs are common; restaurants routinely dim the lights.<\/p>\n<p>Host Renee Montagne talks to Kate Golden, a reporter at The Juneau Empire<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=90755754\">Listen to it all from NPR<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One month after an avalanche knocked out its connection to a hydroelectric dam, much of Juneau, Alaska, is still relying on diesel back-up generators. Residential electricity rates have gone up about 400 percent. As a result, residents and the city<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=6303\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,140],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-energy-natural-resources"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}