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Funding for the Alaska Energy Authority's project comes from excess bond payments from Bradley Lake. Utilities finished paying off the project’s bonds last year.
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Energy utilities have been meeting since May to talk strategy as Cook Inlet’s top producer of natural gas warns future contracts are not a guarantee. This week, a local sustainability commission said the Kenai Peninsula Borough, too, could play a role in helping avoid an energy crisis down the road.
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A new rebate program from Homer Electric Association will give homeowners and contractors credits for installing heat pumps — which are more efficient than other heating sources and, now, are sometimes more economical.
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Last month, the water level at Bradley Lake was just a few feet away from the top of the dam — letting utilities take more energy from the 120-megawatt hydroelectric project and cut back on using more expensive fuel sources.
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The outages — which occurred on Saturday — were linked to high winds related to the storms in Western Alaska.
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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.
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A long-time plan to build an hydroelectric project in Moose Pass, on the eastern Kenai Peninsula, is one step closer to coming to fruition. That’s after the Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly greenlit a reclassification of land in the area, paving the way for an easement and access road to the proposed plant.But the route saw pushback from residents in Moose Pass, who rejected the reclassification at a local planning commission meeting.
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Lightning — and lightning-caused power outages — are rare in Southcentral Alaska.
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Transmission lines in Southcentral Alaska are getting old. Advocates of the project say it will modernize that infrastructure and boost plans to transmit energy from renewable energy projects across the Railbelt.
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Hilcorp told Railbelt utilities it may not meet their natural gas needs after the current contract cycle ends.