Bam! A Transition - Rural Electrification in Iceland and Alaska

We can start exploring the current energy transition by first stepping back in time to look at the last big one – the one that gave millions of people around the world widespread access to electric power. Rural electrification remains an ongoing process today, particularly in rural and remote areas of the developing world. Getting electricity monumentally changed people's lives. We'll go back to experience that transformation through the words and voices of those that were part of that struggle in rural Alaska. People: Halla Hrund Logadóttir, Director-General of Iceland's National Energy Authority (Orkustofnun); Willie Iġġiaġruk Hensley, former Alaska lawmaker, architect of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, and original board member of the Alaska Village Electric Cooperative Places: Reykjavik, Iceland; New Stuyahok, Alaska Technology/Concepts: Rural electrification Closing the Gap is hosted by Gwen Holdmann and produced by Jennifer Pemberton. Music is from Blue Dot Sessions.