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Tok May Be First Alaska Community Fully Powered By Biomass

Tok may become the first community in Alaska to get all its electricity from wood.

A utility has proposed building a power plant that would burn black spruce, a plan backers say  could serve as a test case for communities struggling with high cost fossil fuel generated power.

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Tim Ellis is a reporter at KUAC in Fairbanks.