renewable energy

Cooper Landing's popular Russian River Campground in Cooper Landing closes Wednesday for another stretch of road rehab and maintenance projects. And, it’s not just a source of scenic photos and occasional ash clouds, Mount Augustine could be a source of renewable, harnessed energy.

The Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly recently approved a 25-year lease with Utopian Power, a renewable energy development company that approached the borough with the idea to convert a 40-acre decommissioned waste facility into a 2-megawatt solar farm.

The company is already exploring Mount Spurr. Now, it wants to probe another Cook Inlet volcano's energy potential, pending final approval from the Alaska Department of Natural Resources.

An Alaska energy company wants to build its biggest solar panel farm yet on the Kenai Peninsula. First, it’s asking the Kenai Peninsula Borough for a tax…

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

Companies have been dreaming about turning Cook Inlet’s tides into energy for years. The inlet has the largest tides in the country and some of the…

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…

Cook Inlet has long been a hotbed of oil and gas development in Alaska.But for years, renewable energy advocates have been eyeing another Cook Inlet…

Homer Electric Association has seen a sharp increase in the number of its members wanting to hook up their own renewable energy setups into the grid this…

Alaska’s midnight sun is going to work for more peninsula residents as they install more and more solar panels.The Solarize the Kenai campaign kicked off…