energy

On today’s episode of the Kenai Conversation, we’re joined by John Hendrix, president and CEO of HEX/Furie Alaska to talk all things oil and gas development in Cook Inlet.

This year, presenters highlighted mariculture, workforce development and healthcare. But one topic rose above the rest: energy. Where to find it, how we use it and ways to get more of it.

A combination of adverse economic conditions and uncertainty over the future of federal solar investment tax credits threw the project into limbo earlier this year.

Project stakeholders say they're looking for a way forward.

For years, Maine-based Ocean Renewable Power Company has had its eyes on the inlet. It has some of the biggest tides in the world and accounts for more than a third of the country’s tidal energy resource.

The University of Alaska Fairbanks’ Center for Energy and Power brought a presentation on carbon technology to the Challenger Learning Center.

Cook Inletkeeper, the Homer-based water conservation nonprofit, recently met to discuss home energy efficiency retrofits as part of its “local solutions” series. The group of volunteers talked logistics and brainstormed a plan to make more central peninsula homes energy efficient.

The Alaska Industrial Development and Energy Authority, or AIDEA, is a state-owned corporation that focuses on economic projects meant to create jobs and…

Two companies are looking at the geothermal energy potential of Mount Spurr, a volcano about 40 miles west of Tyonek in Cook Inlet.Once they have the…

This week, getting to know the latest advocacy group trying to leave its mark on Alaska’s energy sector. Power the Future is a relatively new group. In…