September 19, 2011
By Reba Lean of the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner: Workers are finishing construction on a wood chip biomass boiler at the Delta High School. The boiler will provide heat for the 77,000-square-foot high school building and possibly other buildings around the school in the future. The 5 million Btu boiler is the [...] Read More
September 19, 2011
By Dermot Cole of the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner: Businessman Mike Craft and his partners in a Delta wind-power project filed a request for a certificate of public convenience and necessity with the state, according to a filing with the Regulatory Commission of Alaska. One condition of a $2 million state grant they received [...] Read More
September 19, 2011
By Dermot Cole of the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner: Electric rates are going up again because of higher fuel costs, according to documents filed by the Golden Valley Electric Association with the state. The cost to a consumer using 500 kilowatt hours a month will go from $111.96 to $116.42, under rates approved by [...] Read More
September 17, 2011
By Lori Townsend, APRN – Anchorage | September 1, 2011 About a dozen Alaska Lawmakers and others are in Norway looking at how the country develops it’s renewable and fossil fuel resources. Norway gets 98% of its energy for in country use from hydropower. They export their oil and gas to Europe and other markets, mainly [...] Read More
September 17, 2011
By JOANNA M. FOSTER of the New York Times: HOBOKEN, N.J. — On summer evenings, the running path along the riverfront here is clogged with businessmen on smartphones tripping over dog leashes and joggers weaving through a stream of strollers. It had gotten even more congested recently as curious pedestrians congregated around [...] Read More
September 14, 2011
From Popular Mechanics: The whine of the power plant sounds like a jet engine as refrigerant blasts through the turbine at 1000 mph. Though the equipment is compact, the din fills the vast hangar, and mechanical engineer Gwen Holdmann has to shout to be heard: “What you see here is very Alaskan. It’s not painted. [...] Read More
September 13, 2011
A new report from the Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development estimates there are already almost 5,000 “Green Jobs” in Alaska. KDLG’s Mike Mason has the story. Green Jobs in Alaska report (.pdf) Note: The Green Jobs report is on pgs. 14-20. Read More
September 1, 2011
From Delta Discovery: Alaska Village Electric Cooperative (AVEC), held an Energy Project Dedication Ceremony on August 2nd in Chevak, Alaska. This event marked the official opening of the new amalgamated power project that includes an automated power plant, bulk fuel tank farms, and four wind turbines. The modular-style plant is powered by three fuel-efficient diesel engines [...] Read More
August 24, 2011
By Ted Land Channel 2 News: It’s been a disappointing summer for the Mount Spurr geothermal energy project. Reno, Nevada-based Ormat Technologies Inc., which has been doing test work on leases out there, said equipment problems and difficult rock conditions only allowed them to drill a single well, instead of the two they planned at [...] Read More
August 21, 2011
FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) — The University of Alaska Fairbanks is building a dormitory it hopes will serve as a living laboratory to study renewable energy, gray-water recycling and elements of hyper-efficient design. The $1 million project, called the Sustainable Village, is being designed to test efficiency and low operating costs, according to The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner [...] Read More
