Clean-energy projects will be highlighted during Alaska visit by Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm

U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm plans to spend two days in Alaska traveling with Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski to showcase what Granholm’s office calls the state’s status as “America’s living laboratory.”

The visit coincides with the recent passage of the bipartisan infrastructure deal and is intended to show how investments and research and development funding “will bring jobs and help build the state’s clean, secure energy future,” Granholm’s office said.

“America’s Last Frontier is leading the way to advance technologies that will make our clean energy transition possible,” Granholm said in a statement. “I look forward to joining Senator Murkowski to witness this innovation.”

The visit starts Sunday in Fairbanks, where Granholm and Murkowski plan to tour the National Renewable Energy Lab’s Cold Climate Housing Research Center. The center’s work in training a local workforce to build and rapidly deploy shelter for climate-threatened communities in an effort to reduce the need for relocation will be highlighted.

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(Anchorage Daily News)