Sustainable North

From The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Sunday, September 26, 2010: A Fairbanks developer said Tuesday he hopes he can build a 25-megawatt wind farm near Delta Junction despite limited avenues for public aid. Mike Craft said his firm, Alaska Environmental Power, is working with Golden Valley Electric Association to study how to best feed wind power [...]

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From The Associated Press, Friday, September 17, 2010: A University of Alaska group will receive $3 million to study options to optimize wind-diesel hybrid energy systems in rural Alaska. The Alaska Center for Energy and Power, based at UA Fairbanks, was awarded the grant by the federal Department of Energy. The university says Alaska already [...]

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From The Tundra Drums, Wednesday, September 15, 2010: WindPower Innovations Inc., a wind power infrastructure and smart grid solutions company (PINK SHEETS:WPNV), announced talks with Alaska Villages Electric Co-op (AVEC), a non-profit electric utility, owned by the people served in 53 villages throughout interior and western Alaska, and is the largest service area of any [...]

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From The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Saturday, September 11, 2010: Gov. Sean Parnell says that if Alaska is to meet the ambitious goal of getting half of its electricity from renewable sources some day, it will have to make a major commitment to big hydroelectric project, such as the Susitna project. On a visit to Fairbanks [...]

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From The Anchorage Daily News, Sunday, August 15, 2010: As an Alaska Native veteran, I want to see our country expand our clean energy sources. It will help our planet and our state, it will help Alaska’s Native peoples and it will help our national defense. I am 69 years old. In my lifetime I [...]

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From The Tundra Drums, Friday, August 20, 2010: If Alaskans aren’t at a crossroads politically, we’re drawing close. Most all candidates running for statewide offices this year have given due time to talk about the state’s energy future, since we’ve been living off of our energy past for so long and change is coming. A [...]

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From APRN, Monday, August 23, 2010: A Southeast Alaska hydropower plant is closer to completion. A $9 million Alaska Energy Authority grant is the final piece of the funding puzzle for the Prince of Wales Island’s Reynolds Creek project. Listen online: Southeast Hydropower Plant Approaches Completion

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From The Associated Press, Wednesday, August 18, 2010: A developer of tidal power in the nation’s northeastern corner is reporting success with its first commercial-sized underwater turbine, putting it on track to have one connected to the power grid by the end of 2011, officials said Wednesday. Ocean Renewable Power Co. describes its proprietary 60-kilowatt [...]

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From APRN, Friday, August 13, 2010: For years, the Aleutian village of Akutan has seen the energy potential in its hot springs and fumaroles. Now, it looks like that potential might be realized. In July, work began on two exploratory wells. The first one was drilled on July 16, and it’s producing hot water at [...]

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From Capital City Weekly, Monday, August 9, 2010: Residents of Juneau concerned with an increase in their monthly utility bills might find it easy to forget that in some Southeast communities, energy woes have been a constant issue for years. Rural areas like Angoon, heavily dependent on fossil fuels, face energy prices as high as [...]

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