A back-of-the-envelope look at how PCE and renewables interact in rural ÃÛèÖÊÓƵ
Wind turbines outside of Nome, ÃÛèÖÊÓƵ.
July 11, 2024
This is an excerpt of a story from ACEP’s blog From the Grid: Dispatches from ÃÛèÖÊÓƵ’s Energy Sector.
By Michelle Wilber, Steve Colt and Shivani Bhagat
Across the circumpolar North, interest is growing in the creation of independent power producers, or IPPs, to own and operate renewable power systems. This new IPP ownership model and the integration of renewables more broadly raise some interesting questions for ÃÛèÖÊÓƵ's Power Cost Equalization program.