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Your #1 Source For Alternative Energy Solutions
- Wind Power
- Solar Power
- Hydro Power
- Geothermal Power
- System Integration
- Site Analysis
- Control Systems
- Efficiency Monitoring
Alaska is a state abundant with natural renewable energy resources. Wind, hydro, geothermal and solar are considered the renewable sources of energy to harness in our state. These resources can be harnessed to produce energy off-sets to fossil fuels in many rural communities but particularly the communities that are served by small isolated electric grids.
They are considered renewable as each source is replenished by a natural process making them essentially inexhaustible.
MCE Mission Statement - Promoting Alternative and Renewable Energies
to be the most innovative group you'll find in Alaska to assist our remote communities maintain a position of sustainability and affordability for families through the use of alternative and renewable energies.
Goals
- Identify and develop synergistic partnerships and approaches with organizations that foster renewable energy projects such as wind, solar, hydro and other renewable resources.
- Promote the concept of "Green Energy" in rural Alaska energy projects.
- Support statewide renewable energy concepts, contribution to regional development of local renewable resources.
- Assist our communities with grant applications to acquire "Green Energy" projects.
Wind power is one of the fastest-growing sources of renewable energy around the world. It is popular because it is abundant and provides many rural communities with a clean, local source of electricity, as opposed to the high cost of importing diesel and heating fuels. In the United States, which recently passed Germany to become the country producing the most wind power, the Department of Energy has estimated that wind power could account for 20 percent of the nation's electricity supply by 2030.
Click here to visit the U.S. Department of Energy "Wind & Hydropower Technologies Program".
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Wind technologies are well suited to Alaska. Small off-grid applications where reliable and affordable energy is often crucial in further development and sustainability of Alaskan communities.
Wind accounts for a fraction of electricity use in Alaska. It has two main problems. First, the high cost to develop and harvest the wind in remote communities, and secondly the wind is non-firm energy and is whole depended on the resource. There must be power plants (often fueled by diesel fuel) ready to turn on instantly if the wind slackens.
The wind often blows the hardest in remote areas, far from communities that need the energy. In western Alaska and the area along the Aleutian Islands, where the wind is often the strongest, it is also hundreds of miles from communities that need the resource the most. Building transmission lines to deliver the energy where it is most needed is expensive and difficult.
Marsh Creek Energy is at the forefront of the development of this industry, looking for solutions that will aid our communities with wind projects and other energy solutions.
Alaska Wind Power Map
Other Alaska wind related links of interest.
AEA Wind Energy Program
AEA Publications
Note: Some of the projects shown were designed and managed by personnel now working for Marsh Creek Energy Systems.
