Alaska

  • Ameresco Partners with Alaska Utility on Juneau Hydropower Project

    Energy solutions provider Ameresco announced a partnership with Alaska’s Juneau Hydropower to develop, build, and operate a 19.8-MW hydropower station at Sweetheart Lake. The facility is located 33 miles south of downtown Juneau. The project also includes installation of a battery energy storage system (BESS) and more than 40 miles of high-voltage transmission infrastructure.

  • U.S. Air Force Selects Fast Microreactor for Nuclear Power Pilot

    The U.S. Air Force’s first nuclear microreactor planned for Eielson Air Force Base in Alaska under a federal nuclear microreactor pilot program will be an Oklo liquid metal-cooled fast reactor. The Defense of Logistics Agency (DLA), acting on behalf of the Department of Air Force (DAF), on Aug. 31 issued a Notice of Intent to Award […]

  • BESS System on Hybrid Microgrid Powers Remote Alaskan Community

    The small town of Cordova, Alaska, is located 150 miles southeast of Anchorage, near the picturesque head of the Orca Inlet on the Prince William Sound, at the mouth of the Copper River. It is renowned for its Copper River king and red salmon. Every year, the town transforms into a seafood and fishing powerhouse […]

  • Healy 2: The Story of a Coal Unit’s Remarkable Resiliency

    Coal is the reason that Healy, Alaska, exists. To ensure low-cost power and reliability to interior Alaska—a remote place that is bereft of gas and has little sun—and sustain regional employment, Golden

  • Alaska’s Only Nuclear Plant Will Be Decommissioned

    It’s been nearly 50 years since Alaska’s only nuclear power plant was in service. Nonetheless, the site has continued to be a hub of activity off and on over the years; the steam plant that was served by the nuclear reactor remains online, today powered by diesel. And since 2003, the facility has been home […]

  • ABB Microgrid Technology Will Integrate Wind Power in Remote Parts of Alaska

    ZURICH, Switzerland (March 7, 2018) – Deering and Buckland are two small villages in northwestern Alaska, with populations of 200 and 400 mostly indigenous Inupiaq people. For these residents, who rely heavily on fishing and hunting for their subsistence, life above the Arctic Circle is tough. Winter lasts for nine months with temperatures dipping to […]

  • States Sue EPA, Army Corps Over Final Waters of U.S. Rule with Reach Over Power Plants

    Thirteen states are suing the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers over the recently finalized Clean Water Rule, which they say illegally puts the federal government in charge of a majority of water and land resources in the U.S.  North Dakota, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Idaho, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, […]

  • Top Plant: Southcentral Power Project, Anchorage, Alaska

    Owners: Chugach Electric Association Inc. and Anchorage Municipal Light & PowerOperator: Chugach Electric Association Inc. Alaska’s vast land mass broken up by mountainous regions and glacier fields does