By ALEX GIMARC
Oct. 7, 2026 – Today’s stroll through the Magical World of Jonathan Kreiss – Tompkins (JKT) will focus on his views on energy.
Like most Democrats, JKT focuses on unobtanium, the magical, mystical energy production from renewables (wind and solar).
We can find his platform on his What JKT Stands For page on his campaign website.
There are four bullet points. Renewables are prominently mentioned twice. Coal and nuclear never are. Here are the bullet points:
– Support development of all energy sources — renewables, hydro, natural gas — to lower utility bills for Alaskans.
– Require the four Railbelt utilities to cooperate with each other in order to provide cheaper electricity for Alaskans.
– Partner with industry and support the development of an Alaskan natural gas pipeline.
– Support the Alaska Energy Authority’s Renewable Energy Fund.
JKT sat for a Jul 28 interview with KTUU where he made the following statement about renewables:
“I believe in wholesale investment in renewable energy and diversifying our energy sources and being more energy independent. Whatever chaos is happening in the Middle East isn’t making our gas and electric bills go up 50% year over year.”
With this statement, he is smart enough to understand the impact of high energy costs on Alaskans. Sadly, he believes the solution to high energy costs is renewable energy, mentioned twice in his platform. Note that outside of a few localized, unique cases (remote, isolated villages or cabins), renewables end up being far more expensive, less reliable, and more destructive of the environment than any other generation option including coal and diesel.
Alex Gimarc: The magical world of JKT
Magical thinking. Yet, he focuses on it while promising to support development of all energy sources. You can tell a lot about what he supports by what he mentions – renewables (always first on his list), hydro and natural gas.
No mention of anything associated with coal – coal gas, coal to liquids (Fischer – Tropsch), clean coal.
No mention of Watana for hydro, though being from Sitka, he is from a part of the state highly dependent on hydro for energy.
No mention of Small Modular Reactors (GenIV SMRs) though construction on the first one in Alaska will begin at Eielson 2028. This won’t be the last one installed in Alaska.
It’s tough to claim you are an all-source kind of guy if the first thing out of your mouth, your default position always starts with renewables (wind and solar).
Requiring the Railbelt utilities to work with one another is another nice sounding throwaway line. While they ought to work together on big projects (large generation and transmission), they ought to be intensely competitive in distribution and customer service. Some will do this better than others, creating a competitive environment that the customers / members will see and demand more of.
Finally, JKT wants to partner with industry and support development of the natural gas pipeline. Yet he also demands a spur line to Fairbanks, and that the project provide direct economic benefits to the cities and boroughs along the route (property taxes).
Some partnership, that.
It’s going be difficult to get industry to build this beast if you and your majorities in the Alaska Legislature are figuring out how thoroughly to screw over the owners and producers with new or revised taxes, the mindset that killed gasline legislation this year.
Remember, if the economics of the pipeline ends up shipping LNG out of Prudhoe over the top, with no pipe, none of the communities along the Parks Highway will get a penny outside of royalties paid to the state. And Fairbanks won’t get its spur line, either.
The same thing happens if Trump federalizes the project on national security grounds. Worse, that outcome may result in none of the natural gas being available to the Railbelt until after it is loaded on a tanker. How affordable will that be?
In his own words, JKT is a renewables first kind of guy who will partner with his new legislature to squeeze every last penny out of the gasline starting before anything flows through it. And he expects this to lead to lower energy costs?
Magical thinking, indeed.
Alex Gimarc lives in Anchorage since retiring from the military in 1997. His interests include science and technology, environment, energy, economics, military affairs, fishing and disabilities policies. His weekly column “Interesting Items” is a summary of news stories with substantive Alaska-themed topics. He was a small business owner and Information Technology professional.
6 thoughts on “Alex Gimarc: The magical world of JKT. Part 2 – Renewables”
How much will it cost the taxpayers to remodel the Governor’s MANsion after He and his bunch of carpet baggers wear out the flooring?
JKT was born in Sitka
And other than that and an undistinguished time in the Legislature, we know very little about him. Or at least nothing he wants to talk about.
The ONLY thing we know is that he is a faggot and Mary Peltola hates faggots. That’s it. Who is JKT? Does he live with his parents in Sitka? Why did he drop out of college? Does he have a boyfriend? Is he secretly married to another man? Why are Democrats not revealing anything about this strange little person who may be our next governor?
Democrats don’t want the public to know anything about JKT, and neither does Alaska’s Democrat controlled mainstream media. Their goal is to slip this little boy into the governor’s mansion without any vetting or investigation. Hopefully, Suzanne is on this.
Have Alaskans lost their fricken minds?
We have a little sissy boy who lives with his parents in Sitka about to beat Dave Bronson, Bernadette Wilson, and Treg Taylor who are some heavy weights in politics. Is this election only about LGBTQ, DEI, and wokism? The three heavies better get together, and quick, and resolve this coming mess.