A Compilation and Review of Alaska Energy Projects

• Main Authors: Arlon Tussing, Steve Colt
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: 29 ENERGY PLANNING; POLICY AND ECONOMY; ALASKA; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; ENERGY SOURCES; ENERGY SOURCE DEVELOPMENT; Arctic; Alaska
• Online Access: http://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/963354; https://www.osti.gov/biblio/963354; https://doi.org/10.2172/963354

There have been many energy projects proposed in Alaska over the past several decades, from large scale hydro projects that have never been built to small scale village power projects to use local alternative energy sources, many of which have also not been built. This project was initially intended to review these rejected projects to evaluate the economic feasibility of these ideas in the light of current economics. This review included contacting the agencies responsible for reviewing and funding these projects in Alaska, including the Alaska Energy Authority, the Denali Commission, and the Arctic Energy Technology Development Laboratory, obtaining available information about these projects, and analyzing the economic data. Unfortunately, the most apparent result of this effort was that the data associated with these projects was not collected in a systematic way that allowed this information to be analyzed.