ACEP news
ACEP welcomes back Leasi Vanessa Lee Raymond
November 01, 2024
Leasi Vanessa Lee Raymond, the new deputy director for strategic initiatives, will work closely with ACEP's director and executive officer to provide strategic input.
Summer intern contributes to developing new insulation technology
November 01, 2024
ACEP summer intern Micah VanderHart worked to develop an insulation system for buildings that is efficient and hence helps reduce COâ‚‚ emissions.
Summer intern explores marine energy through fieldwork and resource assessments
October 31, 2024
Summer intern Lydia Andriesen worked with ACEP's marine energy team, doing fieldwork, learning deployment of bathymetry instruments and working on resource assessments for potential hydrokinetic energy projects in rural Alaska.
Facilities and large energy users: Apply to the new technical assistance program
October 31, 2024
A new program is available to provide direct technical assistance for industrial facilities and other large energy users to transition to clean energy, lower costs, reduce emissions and contribute to a clean energy economy.
Solving Alaska’s Energy Challenges
ACEP works with Alaskan communities and industries as leaders establishing the energy systems of the future. Alaska’s remote off-grid systems present unique problems to generation, distribution and resource integration that have spurred microgrid innovations for decades.
Events
Town Hall meeting will discuss carbon capture, use and storage in Alaska
November 19, 2024
Join ACEP and partners for a town hall discussion on CCUS and learn how Alaska's geology and new regulatory framework has the potential to support diverse carbon storage projects aligned with low carbon development.
Arctic Energy Forum 2024 in Iceland, Oct. 12-16
October 14, 2024
The Arctic Energy Forum 2024 will be held in Akureyri, Iceland, Oct. 14-16, prior to the Arctic Circle Assembly. A pre-conference education and policy tour is offered on Oct. 12-13.
Follow the Sun tour Aug. 13 in Anchorage
August 13, 2024
Join ACEP and the AgriSolar Clearinghouse on Tuesday, Aug. 13 at 9:30 a.m. for the Follow the Sun Alaska tour, part of a University of Alaska's agrivoltaics project in Houston, Alaska.
From the Grid
Dispatches from Alaska’s Energy Sector
To be the best utility: Reflections from former AVEC president and CEO, Meera Kohler
October 11, 2024
Providing reliable power service to rural Alaska faces many geographic and economic challenges unique to the far North, including: vulnerabilities to supply chain disruptions, the high cost of diesel fuel, and limited resources to name a few. AVEC, however, has been successful in addressing these challenges through innovative organizational solutions as well as the early adoption of new technologies. Many of these solutions were wrought by former AVEC president and CEO, Meera Kohler.
September 26, 2024
Over his 11 years at ACEP, Chris consistently promoted renewable energy initiatives, always finding the right tool -- whether that was a strategic partnership, an international collaboration or a set of pyranometer wires. His transition to a new role with Renewable IPP marks the end of an era at ACEP.
Powering up the nation's second largest island with 100% renewable energy
September 03, 2024
Kodiak Island is located 250 miles south of Anchorage and is the second-largest island in the United States. It is the first remote community in Alaska to be powered by almost 100% renewable energy year round. The utility manager - Darron Scott - tells the story of how this microgrid uses innovative storage strategies to balance hydro and wind resources on Alaska's largest remote microgrid. This is an excerpt from a forthcoming book entitled "Alaska's Energy Innovators" to be published by the University of Alaska Press.
Kotzebue home heating field study
Researchers at the ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø are recruiting participants for a 24-month field study in Kotzebue. The study aims to reduce fuel oil use and home heating costs.
