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ACEP Makes a Big Presence in the Northwest Arctic Borough
June 02, 2023
ACEP has had a large presence in the Northwest Arctic Borough this year.
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A New Grid Bridging System Tested at ACEP to Serve Villages in Alaska
May 29, 2023
Testing has commenced at ACEP on a new grid bridging system that will serve two communities near the west coast of Alaska.
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Experienced Systems Engineer Rainer Karcher Joins ACEP
May 26, 2023
Rainer Karcher has recently joined ACEP as a DevOps engineer. His work focuses on maintenance and improvement of ACEP's IT cyberinfrastructure.
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Daly River Solar Microgrid Powers Remote Australia Community
May 25, 2023
Daly River, the first high-penetration solar powered microgrid in Australia's Northern Territory, successfully powers remote communities.
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T3 Students Immerse Themselves in Energy Audit Experience
May 22, 2023
High school students received an energy audit training developed by the Teaching Through Technology Energy Club.
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ACEP Welcomes Dhaha Nur to its Data Collection and Management Team
May 22, 2023
Dhaha Nur has recently joined ACEP as a DevOps engineer.
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Ground Truth Alaska Report: Goals and Plans of Alaska's Railbelt Electric Utilities
May 22, 2023
ACEP's Alaska Energy Data partners published a report comparing the goals that Alaska utilities set for themselves with predictions for the Regulatory Commission of Alaska.
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May 19, 2023
The Biden-Harris administration announced the availability of nearly $11 billion in grants and loan opportunities that will help affordable and reliable clean energy to rural communities across the country.
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May 19, 2023
The Biden-Harris administration announced that $50 million in new grant funding will be made available for community-based energy projects located in rural and remote areas across the country.
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ACEP Marine Energy Team Visits OSU PartnersPage Title
May 12, 2023
The ACEP Marine Energy team working on the Department of Energy project Modeling the Integration of Marine Energy into Microgrids visited their Oregon State University project partners in April.
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MacDougall Brings Broad Skillset to ACEP
May 11, 2023
Ian MacDougall has joined ACEP's data team as a data analyst and analytics engineer.
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Getting to the Bottom of Residential Heating Fuel Oil Consumption
May 08, 2023
ACEP researchers set to work to build a test bench for the flow meters to explore residential energy consumption data collection.
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Alaska's Changing Arctic: Issues and Trends
May 08, 2023
The final video for the Alaska's Changing Arctic Issues and Trends report series, a capstone video, has been launched, targeting the Alaska state legislature.
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$200k Community Solar Program Awards
May 08, 2023
The second round of the Sunny Awards by U.S. DOE National Community Solar Partnership has been announced. The Awards will provide $200,000 for community solar projects.
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Australian Solar to Hydrogen Building and Offshore Hydrogen Microgrids
April 24, 2023
A recent tour of a solar- to hydrogen-powered building in Australia helps create potential research partnerships in onshore and offshore hydrogen microgrids.
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Applications Open for URSA's 2023 Fall Student Project Awards
April 24, 2023
Applications for UAF's Undergraduate Research Scholarly Activity's 2023 Fall Student Project Awards are now open.
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Energy Awareness App Earns Two ACEP Students Prestigious Award
April 24, 2023
Computer science students Nicole Mah and Tuva Granøien earned the Dr. Alex Hills Engineering and Civic Engagement Award for a Community Energy Awareness App they created for the community of Kotzebue.
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Solarize Fairbanks 2023 Campaign is Open
April 19, 2023
The Solarize Fairbanks 2023 Campaign is open and accepting participants through May 2023!
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ACEP Researchers Attend Alaska Interdisciplinary Science Conference
April 19, 2023
Researchers traveled to the Western Alaska Interdisciplinary Science Conference in Dillingham to share research findings on topics ranging from electric vehicles to solar energy and heat pumps.
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Did you Miss the Carbon Capture and Sequestration: Myths and the Reality Workshop?
April 19, 2023
Did you miss the carbon capture utilization and storage workshop? You can view it now.
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Celebrating our Staff with UAF Longevity Awards
April 12, 2023
Every year, UAF celebrates the staff who support the university with longevity and recognition awards.
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Annalise Klein Joins Island Innovation Ambassador Cohort
April 12, 2023
ACEP program architect Annalise Klein was accepted as part of the 2023 Island Innovation ambassador cohort.
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Master's Student is Recruiting FNSB Residents for Home Energy Interviews
April 12, 2023
Alaska households face higher energy costs than most of the United States, and with its very cold winters, Alaska is unique.
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April 12, 2023
Last summer, ACEP's hydrokinetics team tested the BladeRunner Energy turbine during their field season.
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Yup'ik Dance Festival Offers Opportunity for Community Engagement
April 12, 2023
Michelle Wilber and Chris Pike of ACEP, and Leif Albertson of UAF Cooperative Extension Service traveled to Bethel last month for the 2023 Cama-i Dance Festival.
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Graduate Scholarships, Fellowships, Jobs and Career Fairs
April 04, 2023
Talks about Marine Energy Career Panel, the Southeast Conference, Pacific Marine Energy Center, and the Coastal Management Fellowship Program.
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April 04, 2023
With a milder Southeast climate and hydropower as the main energy source, Sitka is an ideal place for electrification.
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Holdmann Named on Energy Security Task Force
April 03, 2023
Last week, Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy revised the Alaska Energy Security Task Force and announced its members.
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Nicole Jacobs Brings Unique Perspectives to ACEP
March 27, 2023
Nicole Jacobs works on the Alaska Energy Atlas, exploring transmission grid connectivity to determine the cost of connecting off-grid communities to regional and continental grids.
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Graduate Scholarships, Fellowships, Jobs and Career Fairs
March 27, 2023
The Rural Energy Program at the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium is hiring, a Marine Energy Career Panel, the Southeast Conference is hiring an energy coordinator, the Pacific Marine Energy Center offers travel reimbursements for university collaborations and the 2023 Coastal Management Fellowship Program.
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March 27, 2023
ACEP's work and its researchers are frequently featured in various news sources.
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New Renewable Energy Portfolio Standard Bill Introduced to Legislature
March 27, 2023
A new bill recently introduced to the Alaska legislature proposes to require the utilities that form the 700-mile Alaska Railbelt grid to generate or purchase a specified percentage of their electricity from renewable resources.
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March 27, 2023
Researchers at the Alaska Center for Energy and Power are recruiting Kotzebue residents to participate in a focus group on energy use and costs.
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March 27, 2023
Researchers at the Alaska Center for Energy and Power are recruiting Kotzebue homeowners to participate in a 24-month field study.
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Jeremy Kasper Named ACEP Director
March 20, 2023
Kasper's vision for ACEP's future is, through applied renewable energy and distributed energy research, to improve the quality of life and community resilience of Alaskans.
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March 20, 2023
Gratia Rowell will be working on policy research that evaluates possible impacts of the power cost equalization program on renewable energy in rural Arctic villages.
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Alaska's Role in Arctic International Relations
March 20, 2023
UAF Center for Arctic Policy Studies' Amy Lovecraft and UAF Center for Arctic Security and Resilience's Brandon Boylan discuss Alaska's role in making the United States an Arctic nation and how the state's energy future is dependent on those relations.
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Alaska Startup Kartorium Celebrates Kotzebue's Innovation Ecosystem in Blog
March 20, 2023
Kotzebue has pioneered the integration of renewable energy since the late 1990s and continues to demonstrate the city's investment in a more sustainable and economically resilient future.
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Climate-Safe Infrastructure will be Important in Alaska’s Energy Future
March 10, 2023
Rick Thoman and John Walsh of the International Arctic Research Center at UAF discuss Alaska’s changing weather impacts on energy system infrastructure and convey the key points that state leaders must consider when navigating decisions against the backdrop of a rapidly changing Arctic.
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Seth Kantner Comes to Fairbanks for two Storytelling Events and Workshop Series
March 10, 2023
UAF’s The Mix, the Northern Alaska Environmental Center, and the Morris Thompson Cultural and Visitors Center hosted Kantner for an evening of storytelling and readings from his book.
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Want to Host an EV Charging Station?
March 03, 2023
Using National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure formula funding, Phase 1 of the plan focuses on building out EV charging infrastructure along Alaska’s alternative fuel corridor, the 355-mile stretch of road that connects Fairbanks to Anchorage.
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ACEP Summer Interns Present Their Research at Texas Power and Energy Conference
March 03, 2023
ACEP Railbelt decarbonization team members Alexis Francisco and Leif Bredeson gave presentations at the Texas Power and Energy Conference
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ACEP Is Delighted to Welcome George Reising to the Team
August 29, 2022
George Reising joins ACEP as a program developer and the Teaching Through Technology Alaska curriculum director.
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ACEP Intern Looks at Heat Pumps to Solve Alaska Heating Costs
August 29, 2022
Alaska has some of the highest heating and energy costs in the country, due in large part to the high cost of fuel oil.
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Residential Heater Program Could Help FNSB Improve Air Quality
August 29, 2022
The Alaska Center for Energy and Power is conducting an electric thermal storage heater field study that will take place over three years in North Pole, Alaska.
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ACEP Intern Supports EV's Drive North to the Future
August 19, 2022
We were the first. We were the first people to drive electric vehicles to Oliktok Point.
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