Excellent article on musher & energy director Gwen Holdmann

[Heidi]

Alaska energy center director lives off the grid

By Rena Delbridge

Published Monday, August 3, 2009

FAIRBANKS — When Gwen Holdmann reached Fairbanks with three sled dogs in 1994, the graduate student had little else.

She called home a small cabin in the woods, but really, she said, it was an abandoned place off the utility grid.

She’s come a long way, helping Bernie Karl build his Chena Hot Springs Resort into an international prototype of renewable energy in action, and she recently was named director of the Alaska Center for Energy and Power at University of Alaska. Holdmann is a hot commodity in state legislative circles, with Senate and House energy committees repeatedly requesting her testimony on a variety of energy issues...

http://www.newsminer.com/news/2009/aug/ ... ives-grid/

(FYI: For anyone unaware, this is musher Ken Anderson's wife.)