New Nuclear
Westinghouse and USNC are partnering with local entities to implement microreactors that suit Alaska’s energy needs.
Westinghouse and USNC are partnering with local entities to implement microreactors that suit Alaska’s energy needs.
The Interior Gas Utility has a new General Manager. The board of directors unanimously selected Elena Sudduth, who has been the utility’s director of public relations and customer service.
Green Banks are a new channel for Alaska entrepreneurs to leverage federal funding for ventures related to clean energy and climate resilience. Spruce Root and the Valdez Native Tribe are both part of a movement to direct billions in public-private capital.
Chugach Electric Association is aggressively pursuing new clean energy projects in a manner that allows it to maintain the lowest rates on the Railbelt, supported by new technologies that enhance the potential of existing assets to balance, or integrate, variable clean energy resources.
Delegates from twenty-two countries converged in Anchorage for Arctic Encounter, a chance for Alaskans to learn how the state’s problems might be solved using models from elsewhere, just as visitors witness the Alaska way of doing things.
Conversations about US Arctic energy have been dominated by oil and gas, but Alaska—the nation’s connection to the Arctic—has so much more to offer in the energy sector, from natural resource extraction to being a natural testing ground for micro-grid and extreme weather energy research.