Saft, a designer and manufacturer of high-tech industrial batteries, has delivered its Intensium Max+ 20M containerized Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) with innovative “Cold Temperature Package” on schedule during Q3 2015, to Kotzebue Electric Association Inc. (KEA), an electric cooperative based in Kotzebue, Alaska. The system will let the existing hybrid wind-diesel power system achieve…
Alaska-tuned turbines cut heating costs for remote villagers
By Jarrod Orszulak | Product Manager POSITAL FRABA Inc. About 50 miles south of Bethel, Alaska, and 50 miles north of the Bering Sea lies Tuntutuliak (locally referred to as Tunt), a tundra village of about 400 Yup’ik Eskimos. Most of the residents here survive off the land through subsistence hunting, fishing, and berry picking.…
Phase-one turbines go up on Fire Island, Alaska
When is an onshore turbine installation more like an offshore job? When the turbines are headed for an island. Consider the wind energy project going up on Fire Island, a 5.5-mi long dollop in the Cook Inlet near Anchorage. The site proved such a formidable challenge for the companies involved that they treated it almost…