2 - PCE is rural Alaska's fair share of the hundreds of millions of dollars the state has spent building infrastructure to provide cheaper electric power to urban areas.
Honey buckets are hard to escape from without affordable power.
4 - Even after an equalization program, some rural residents still pay four times as much as urban residents. Residents of 102 rural communities pay more than twice the urban rates, even after applying the PCE formula. After 500 kwh, the rural consumer still pays full utility rates. Without universal electrical service, Alaska will have a hard time joining the 21st century with the rest of the nation. 8 - Rural utilities' operating costs are about a third less than when the state began its PCE program in 1984.