Alaska Center for Energy and Power

This week Energy in the North features Geroge Reising, the curriculum lead and instructor for the T3 Alaska program. Recently, George and the team hosted 13 students from all across Alaska for a two week summer program focused on energy, cybersecurity, and storytelling.

Tune in to KUAC this Wednesday morning to listen to this week’s episode: https://listen.streamon.fm/kuac. The series airs every Wednesday following the 7am and 8am KUAC newscast and during All Things Considered program.
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Amanda Byrd’s series explores the importance and opportunities that energy and power provide to Alaska and its people. Visit the ACEP website to learn more about and listen to the past episodes of the “Energy in the North” series: https://www.uaf.edu/acep/stories/energy-in-the-north-radio-series.php

With this year’s theme, “Turn of the Tide,” discussions at the Arctic Frontiers conference explored multiple dimensions of preparedness and resilience across the Arctic. Energy security emerged as a pivotal component of both regional stability and broader global security. Read more about ACEP's role at the conference in the ACEP news: https://tinyurl.com/4s2zphsf

This week on Energy in the North, Amanda interviews the engineering student who was awarded the highly competitive Larry Bekkedahl Scholarship from the Renewable Energy Scholarship Foundation.

Matteo Kuizenga shares his journey from a Fairbanks "math nerd" motivated by climate change to an ACEP student researcher mapping out local energy systems and studying the impact of wildfire smoke on solar panels.

Tune in to KUAC to listen to this week’s episode: https://listen.streamon.fm/kuac. The series airs every Wednesday following the 7am and 8am KUAC newscast and during All Things Considered program. Catch up on past episodes: https://www.uaf.edu/acep/stories/energy-in-the-north-radio-series.php

The signed MOU expands the area of focus, engaging additional research and academic units at UAF, including the Geophysical Institute and the Institute of Northern Engineering. To learn more about the partnership, read the ACEP news: https://tinyurl.com/56323fwr.

Energy in the North is live on KUAC this Wednesday morning. Tune in at https://listen.streamon.fm/kuac to hear sustainability coordinator Bri Gabel on how the City and Borough of Sitka is exploring the logistics of electrifying cruise ship shore power.

The series airs every Wednesday following the 7am and 8am KUAC newscast and during All Things Considered program. Catch up on past episodes at https://www.uaf.edu/acep/stories/energy-in-the-north-radio-series.php.
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image credits: SS Zaandam moored in Sitka by controltheweb

Gwen Holdmann, Mariko Shirazi, Michelle Wilber, and Leasi Vanessa Lee Raymond are featured speakers at the fifth annual Alaska Sustainable Energy Conference in Anchorage.

ASEC gathers researchers, industry leaders, policymakers and investors from across the world as the energy transition unfolds and emerging technologies advance. Learn more about ASEC and our energy innovators's discussions at https://alaskasustainableenergy.com/
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Erlingur Gudleifsson is among the featured speakers at the fifth annual Alaska Sustainable Energy Conference. He 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 University of Alaska Fairbanks and Koplin is CEO of Cordova Electric Cooperative and a Ph.D. student at UAF. Learn more about ASEC at https://alaskasustainableenergy.com/
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In the community of Sitka, Alaska, how do the changing seasons and weather impact residents' monthly electric bills? This week on Energy in the North, host Amanda Byrd speaks with Bri Gabel, the sustainability coordinator for the City and Borough of Sitka.

Tune in to KUAC this Wednesday morning to listen to this week’s episode: https://listen.streamon.fm/kuac. The series airs every Wednesday following the 7am and 8am KUAC newscast and during All Things Considered program.

Energy in the North explores the importance and opportunities that energy and power provide to Alaska and its people. Visit the ACEP website to learn more about and listen to the past episodes of the “Energy in the North” series: https://tinyurl.com/2kvue5ee
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