Alaska Power Company’s goal for this project is the development and assessment of a hydrokinetic project in the Yukon River, near Eagle, Alaska. Originally, APC was working with UEK, a hydrokinetic turbine manufacturer, to develop site-appropriate technology. Recently APC has contracted with ABS Alaskan, Inc. who will, in a joint venture with New Energy Corp., provide the turbine equipment for the project. The New Energy Corp. technology is similar to the technology deployed at Ruby in 2008, but with a larger generation capacity. Due to the large potential and interest in hydrokinetic technology in Alaska, this project will seek to collect data on many vital questions for all hydrokinetic projects, including environmental interaction, performance and efficiency, deployment challenges, support design, debris avoidance, and economics.
Yukon Hydrokinetic Turbine
Photo by Todd Paris
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Table of Contents
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Project Outline
Objectives
Technology
Work Plan
Data Collection, Analysis, and Reporting
Funding Outline
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Funding Goals
This project is a Denali Commission EETG Program project. The funding goal of the EETG program is to develop emerging energy technology that has the potential of widespread deployment in Alaska and has the long-term goal of reducing energy costs for Alaskans.
Project Recipient
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Grant Management
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The Alaska Center for Energy and Power (ACEP), an energy research group housed under the Institute of Northern Engineering at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, is serving as the program manager of the EETG solicitation. As the projects deal with emerging energy technology and by nature are high risk, high reward, ACEP’s technical knowledge and objective academic management of the projects, specifically for data collection, analysis, and reporting, is a vital component to the intent of the solicitation, i.e., providing lessons learned and recommendations. |
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Project Documents
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Project Information
Supplementary Information
Quarterly Reports
Milestone Reports
Data and Analysis
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