ACEP news
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ACEP team welcomes Will Fisher as the cyberinfrastructure lead
April 05, 2024
New ACEP member Will Fisher's primary job involves helping build and manage the cyberinfrastructure for ACEP.
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Exploring the meaning of true collaboration at the NNA meeting
April 05, 2024
ACEP members working on projects within the National Science Foundation's Navigating the New Arctic initiative were among the attendees to explore what true collaboration means at a recent meeting in Washington, D.C.
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Santosh Muralidaran tackles energy and environmental challenges in rural Alaska
March 23, 2024
Research Fellow Santosh Muralidaran works on projects, involving a retrospective analysis of the 2019 AK Environmentally Threatened Communities Assessment and research on costs to connect off-grid communities in AK and Canada to continental power grids.
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Noelle Helder and her all-woman team row across the Atlantic
March 22, 2024
Noelle Helder was one of the members of the four-woman team that won the women's division of World's Toughest Row, from the Canary Islands offshore of northwest Africa to Antigua, just north of South America.
Solving Alaska’s Energy Challenges
ACEP works with Alaskan communities and industries as leaders establishing the energy systems of the future. Alaska’s remote off-grid systems present unique problems to generation, distribution and resource integration that have spurred microgrid innovations for decades.
Events
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Register now for Alaska Sustainable Energy pre-conference workshop series
April 02, 2024
The topic of the free virtual Alaska Sustainable Energy pre-conference workshop in April is "Transmission and Distribution: The clean energy transitions secret weapon."
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Hydrogen Working Group will present an update on the Pacific Northwest hydrogen hub
April 02, 2024
Jamie Holladay, a senior advisor for hydrogen technologies at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, will give a presentation titled "Pacific Northwest Hydrogen Hub Update" at the next Hydrogen Working Group meeting.
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Register now for Alaska Sustainable Energy Conference pre-conference workshop series
March 05, 2024
Join us for a series of three FREE virtual monthly workshops hosted by ACEP, leading up to the 2024 Alaska Sustainable Energy Conference.
From the Grid
Dispatches from Alaska’s Energy Sector
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Telling the story of Alaska's electrification
April 01, 2024
As an energy and environmental historian at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, much of my research has focused on the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System (TAPS) and its historical influence in Alaska and beyond. While conducting this research I kept finding fascinating and remarkable stories of Alaska's electrification. This book provided me the opportunity to offer a narrative of Alaska's electrical history and contemplate possibilities of electric futures.
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Alaska's data center opportunity: A reality check and possible next steps
February 08, 2024
The role of data centers continues to increase in the lives of ordinary citizens, large corporations and other electricity consumers across the globe. From the surge in interest and application of artificial intelligence and machine learning to the more localized needs of remote communities in Alaska, access to the Internet and cloud computing are transforming the economy and the electricity infrastructure that underpins it. Could a large data center like those seen in Iceland make sense in Alaska?
Kotzebue home heating field study
Researchers at the University of Alaska Fairbanks are recruiting participants for a 24-month field study in Kotzebue. The study aims to reduce fuel oil use and home heating costs.