This Best Practices document (“Guidelines”) highlights those practices that have demonstrated the greatest success and provides recommendations on the courses of action that are meant to be practical but also, by necessity, need to be general, in the implementation of wind-diesel projects.

The Guidelines is a living document; it needs to be updated when significant developments in the technology or the market conditions and commercial activities occur. The present report is the first version. It is expected that the Guidelines will be available online for public download, as well as in print. Moreover, the various sections dealing with best practices in implementing wind-diesel systems (siting, permitting, environmental assessment, feasibility, and financing) will be maintained as a Wiki, managed by ACEP and WiDAC, and will be publicly available as a link from http://www.akwidac.com, to facilitate discussion and improvement of the Guidelines.

Please submit your comments and suggestions below or send them directly to Billy Muhando.

The objectives are:

1. Assist the efficient and sound development of renewable energy installations in Alaska by identifying the best practices and policies;
2. Develop a virtual toolbox that provides an internally complete set of guidelines that outline the key steps and considerations in the implementation of a high quality wind-diesel project;
3. Provide references to existing (successful) wind power projects in Alaska so as to enable policymakers create policies based on an assessment of the benefits of wind power projects;
4. Serve as a template for future application-specific Best Practice documents that will provide more detailed information and examples.
    

Overall, the Guidelines seek to identify, analyze and promote new best practices and policies in promoting the acceptance of wind. The Guidelines outlines the best practices designed to be practical and intended for use primarily by developers of wind-diesel projects.