According to the Energy Information Agency, rural residents and villages in Alaska pay exponentially higher rates for electricity, with some rates reaching over $1 a kilowatt hour, or about 800 percent higher than the national average.
Murkowski discusses high electricity costs faced by rural Alaskan communities.
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