Take time to look over the plans at this project, the travel plan for the salmon heading up to spawn. It's quite impressive, and does work. It's down to population growth, or not, how much does a person want to be paying, not only out of your budget, but in the long term life of a commodity. Power generation, born out of necessity, so keep that in mind. The dynamics mentioned in this article, pristine wilderness, tourism, the economy, all are indeed important. The utility faces equal challenges when gas turbines are to be employed. Although clean burners nowadays, they are indeed burning fossil fuel 24/7. Hydro power, initially does stir up some land for roads, and underground, depending on the project, after completion, be amazed the reclamation that is done to the area.If you want no electric power, then let's return to the pristine late 50s when I first saw the Kenai area, not much of an electrical demand then. What was tourism? The utility is just addressing demand.