Alaska sustainable energy conference May 19-21

The fifth annual Alaska Sustainable Energy Conference will take place Tuesday through Thursday May 19-21 in Anchorage. Join researchers, industry leaders, policymakers and investors from across the world as the energy transition unfolds and emerging technologies advance.

Conference topics will explore the future of energy in Alaska and on a global scale, how to meet the increasing energy demand from surging data centers, and artificial intelligence.

Erlingur Gudleifsson is among the featured speakers and will be on a panel moderated by Clay Koplin, “Distributed Data Centers and Stranded Energy: A Model for Alaska,” which will explore how distributed data centers can unlock the value of Alaska’s abundant stranded energy.

Gudleifsson will talk about how Iceland’s data center industry has grown in a small, isolated part of the North Atlantic, where there is extra renewable energy that can be easily turned on or off. Initially enabled by access to low-cost interruptible power, the sector has evolved into one of the fastest-growing electricity-consuming industries in Iceland.

Gudleifsson is a researcher at ACEP and a Ph.D. student at UAF and Koplin is CEO of Cordova Electric Cooperative and a Ph.D. student at UAF.

ASEC will be held at the Dena’ina Civic and Convention Center in Anchorage, Alaska. Register for the conference here.