A back-of-the-envelope look at how PCE and renewables interact in rural Alaska
Wind turbines outside of Nome, Alaska.
July 11, 2024
This is an excerpt of a story from ACEP’s blog From the Grid: Dispatches from Alaska’s Energy Sector.
By Michelle Wilber, Steve Colt and Shivani Bhagat
Across the circumpolar North, interest is growing in the creation of independent power producers, or IPPs, to own and operate renewable power systems. This new IPP ownership model and the integration of renewables more broadly raise some interesting questions for Alaska's Power Cost Equalization program.