Alaska Power & Telephone Welcomes New Heat Pump Deployment Initiative to its Prince of Wales Island Service Area
KETCHIKAN, Alaska, May 02, 2024--Alaska Power & Telephone Company (AP&T) is excited to announce that Spruce Root – a southeast Alaska non-profit and Community Development Financial Institution – was selected to receive a $2.5m US DOE grant for a heat pump deployment project for Prince of Wales Island. The project, titled "Decarbonizing the Tongass with Tribally Owned Heat Pumps," will be a multi-year initiative to add 240 air source heat pumps to residential homes in Prince of Wales Island commu