AEA Railbelt conference set

The Alaska Energy Authority has announced the venue and a draft agenda for its technical conference on a potential Alaska Railbelt Electrical Grid Authority. The conference will be held on Nov. 26 and 27 at the Anchorage Sheraton Hotel. People wishing to attend should register with Sherrie Siverson at ssiverson@aidea.org.

The conference kicks off a five-month study into the possibility of forming an authority to manage and dispatch electricity on the Railbelt grid and will provide a public forum for discussion of the issues involved. Panels of experts will present information pertinent to the discussion.

The need for new and possibly different sources of power for the grid have raised some important questions about how to generate and manage the electricity supply in the Railbelt (see “Resolving Southcentral power puzzle” in the Oct. 14 edition of Petroleum News).

Information about the conference can be found on the AEA web site at www.akenergyauthority.org.