Leading the way for microgrid systems

Rural Alaska communities implementing cutting edge renewable energy and integration systems in effort to reduce diesel dependency

Alan Bailey

for Petroleum News

While the Alaska Railbelt has ready access to natural gas for power generation, rural communities in the state have long had to rely on the use of expensive and erratically priced diesel fuel to meet their electricity production needs. For a number of years the rural communities have been implementi....

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