Description
Households in remote rural places face utility costs 50% higher now than in 2000. In Anchorage those costs are up 35% and in other large or road-system communities about 39%. The share of household income going to utilities is also up. Utility costs in urban and rural areas are now anywhere from about 3% to 10% of income for the typical household. Those are median figures for all households. Utilities take a much bigger share of income among low-income households. Utility costs now amount to more than a third of income among low-income households in remote places. These are among the findings of an ISER analysis of how rising energy prices have increased utility costs for Alaska households since 2000.
Publication Date
4-17-2006
Keywords
energy, utilities, price, power cost equalization, pce, Anchorage
Recommended Citation
Saylor, Ben and Haley, Sharman, "Effects of Rising Utility Costs on Alaska Households 200 - 2006" (2006). Reports. 301.
https://scholarworks.alaska.edu/uaa_iser_reports/301
Handle
http://hdl.handle.net/11122/12089