Homer Electric Association

Voting for the Homer Electric Association Board of Directors is open April 3 through May 7

Power was restored to all members less than an hour later.

A roughly 13-hour power outage disrupted medical care for roughly 100 patients at Soldotna’s Central Peninsula Hospital on Friday.

A large outage Thursday night left almost 15,000 Homer Electric Association members without power.

Voting in the cooperative’s annual election closed at Thursday evening’s annual membership meeting, where the winners were announced.

A combination of adverse economic conditions and uncertainty over the future of federal solar investment tax credits threw the project into limbo earlier this year.

Voting for HEA board candidates closes on May 1.

Power was restored to the Soldotna area within roughly an hour.

A downed high voltage line in Sterling on top of smaller outages kept power out longer in that area.

If it’s built, the 45-megawatt solar farm in Nikiski would be the biggest in Alaska.