Video Clips
Quoted moments from Alaska public meetings, hearings, and press conferences.
REAP: [2026 Fall Energy Speaker Series] Alaska’s Microgrid Innovators ·
REAP: [2026 Fall Energy Speaker Series] Alaska’s Microgrid Innovators ·
Peter Asmus
“this book is essentially a lot of oral histories because a lot of the folks profiled are now retiring, moving on. Well, Chris, you're now in Portugal, obviously, but— and Clay Copeland just, you know, moved on from his job in Córdoba. So I think the other value of this book is sort of capturing this time when the innovation was starting, and a lot of it is sort of decentralized innovation.”REAP: [2026 Fall Energy Speaker Series] Alaska’s Microgrid Innovators ·
Chris Rose
“unless there's some major gas discovery that none of us know about, can get online fast enough, I unfortunately don't think that we're going to see that kind of replacement.”REAP: [2026 Fall Energy Speaker Series] Alaska’s Microgrid Innovators ·
Chris Rose
“the rail belt right now is still about 80% reliant on natural gas for making electricity, almost 100% for heat. And that's really a problem now that natural gas is in short supply. It's getting a lot more expensive. There's a world market for it.”REAP: [2026 Fall Energy Speaker Series] Alaska’s Microgrid Innovators ·
Chris Rose
“one of the issues that the rail belt really faces is that it is not operating as an integrated grid.”REAP: [2026 Fall Energy Speaker Series] Alaska’s Microgrid Innovators ·
REAP: [2026 Fall Energy Speaker Series] Alaska’s Microgrid Innovators ·
Peter Asmus
“the community, only 70 people, a utility that serves only 70 people, everybody does basically everything, but they use their indigenous wisdom because that river is the salmon”REAP: [2026 Fall Energy Speaker Series] Alaska’s Microgrid Innovators ·
Peter Asmus
“we mentioned Kodiak Island. That's 99% renewable, and the reason they can get there, as Darren Scott describes, they have 3 layers of storage. First of all, they use hydro. A traditional hydro dam, then they have lithium-ion batteries, and then they have a flywheel”REAP: [2026 Fall Energy Speaker Series] Alaska’s Microgrid Innovators ·
Peter Asmus
“one person I was getting to is Diane Carpenter, who I believe, passed away, and so that's one person in the book where she was a last-minute addition. I think Gwen suggested it”REAP: [2026 Fall Energy Speaker Series] Alaska’s Microgrid Innovators ·
Chris Rose
“The problem we've had historically in the rail belt is we've had many utilities and many visions that don't always align.”REAP: [2026 Fall Energy Speaker Series] Alaska’s Microgrid Innovators ·
Peter Asmus
“we discovered— and there are some definitional issues— that Alaska had more microgrids than any other state. In fact, basically everybody in Alaska gets their power from a microgrid.”REAP: [2026 Fall Energy Speaker Series] Alaska’s Microgrid Innovators ·
Chris Rose
“We've got a Regulatory Commission of Alaska that also does not have a vision to execute. So we've got pieces, but they're kind of at misalignment.”REAP: [2026 Fall Energy Speaker Series] Alaska’s Microgrid Innovators ·
Chris Rose
“we don't have a Department of Energy. We call ourselves an energy state, but Alaska doesn't have an energy division. We've got an Alaska Energy Authority that doesn't really have a lot of policymaking horsepower.”REAP: [2026 Fall Energy Speaker Series] Alaska’s Microgrid Innovators ·
Donovan Russoniello
“really encourage folks to go and grab a copy of that book, whether physical or digital. It's, it's an amazing resource and there's a lot of really inspiring stories in there.”REAP: [2026 Fall Energy Speaker Series] Alaska’s Microgrid Innovators ·
REAP: [2026 Fall Energy Speaker Series] Alaska’s Microgrid Innovators ·
REAP: [2026 Fall Energy Speaker Series] Alaska’s Microgrid Innovators ·
REAP: [2026 Fall Energy Speaker Series] Alaska’s Microgrid Innovators ·
REAP: [2026 Fall Energy Speaker Series] Alaska’s Microgrid Innovators ·
Peter Asmus
“it's University of Alaska Press, which is actually University of Colorado Press. I guess it's a subset. So if you Google Alaska Microgrid Innovators, University of Alaska Press, that will also bring you up”REAP: [2026 Fall Energy Speaker Series] Alaska’s Microgrid Innovators ·
Peter Asmus
“I got a chance to go down and visit her in Alamos, spent a bunch of time with her and being able to hear directly from her some of those stories. And so that was pretty special to me”REAP: [2026 Fall Energy Speaker Series] Alaska’s Microgrid Innovators ·
Peter Asmus
“Well, you can go to Amazon, but it just officially came out last Thursday, actually. There's also an online version which actually has color photographs.”REAP: [2026 Fall Energy Speaker Series] Alaska’s Microgrid Innovators ·
Peter Asmus
“this opportunity came up and actually it started— I met Gwen at a conference of some sort. And at the time, I was an analyst, had a global database on microgrids, and I think Gwen said something to the effect like, "You don't have enough Alaska microgrids in your data,"”REAP: [2026 Fall Energy Speaker Series] Alaska’s Microgrid Innovators ·
Chris Rose
“I think it's very unlikely that the utilities that have relied on natural gas in the Southern Rail Belt are going to have any other opportunity to replace that natural gas but for importing it.”REAP: [2026 Fall Energy Speaker Series] Alaska’s Microgrid Innovators ·
REAP: [2026 Fall Energy Speaker Series] Alaska’s Microgrid Innovators ·
Chris Rose
“A lot of these smaller utilities that were administered by people like Brad Reeve up at Kotzebue or Darren Scott at Kodiak Electric had boards of directors that shared a vision of where they wanted to take that utility”REAP: [2026 Fall Energy Speaker Series] Alaska’s Microgrid Innovators ·
Antony Scott
“it is for sure difficult because there are a lot of existing bonds that are out there that pledge certain assets. I mean, without reviewing all the bond covenants, I think would be very difficult to say for sure that, oh yeah, you could just form a single G&T. And then there are also issues around the disposition of co-op utility assets in state law that are very difficult to kind of overcome in terms of voting threshold.”REAP: 2026 Fall Energy Speaker Series | Exploring Unified Economic Dispatch (Pt. 2) ·
Antony Scott
“One of the issues around the Northern Intertribal right now is it's actually like not close to full capacity right now. I think probably pretty much zero hours of the year. And that's in part because there's not available gas for any of the central or southern utilities to burn to generate power to sell to Golden Valley.”REAP: 2026 Fall Energy Speaker Series | Exploring Unified Economic Dispatch (Pt. 2) ·
Antony Scott
“there were voluntary efforts among three parties that went on for years that did not conclude, and that looked to be well off the rails when Chugach just chose to acquire MLNP. And one of the things that the RCA did is they conditioned their approval of that transaction on Chugach and MEA concluding their negotiations and bringing a pool agreement.”REAP: 2026 Fall Energy Speaker Series | Exploring Unified Economic Dispatch (Pt. 2) ·
REAP: 2026 Fall Energy Speaker Series | Exploring Unified Economic Dispatch (Pt. 2) ·
Antony Scott
“my conclusion looking at this is it's going to require some policy innovation probably to get us there. One of the traps I think we always end up in is, well, is the juice worth the squeeze, right? Central Power Pool, that's all fine, but look, it's only $7 million a year.”REAP: 2026 Fall Energy Speaker Series | Exploring Unified Economic Dispatch (Pt. 2) ·
Antony Scott
“both parties have pretty similar fuel costs, and the heat rate differences between the engines that each party has are relatively modest. And so if there aren't big differences in terms of the cost of generation between one party and the next, the benefits from economic dispatch are always going to be lower.”REAP: 2026 Fall Energy Speaker Series | Exploring Unified Economic Dispatch (Pt. 2) ·
Antony Scott
“Like putting Humpty Dumpty back together again is not easy. So having it kind of spontaneously happen, I think my view is it's— we— I will die first before that happens for sure.”REAP: 2026 Fall Energy Speaker Series | Exploring Unified Economic Dispatch (Pt. 2) ·
Antony Scott
“is the juice worth the squeeze? Even assuming the system is exactly the same, the answer is yes. I mean, if Golden Valley and Chugach are able to split almost $7 million a year and going forward that number will increase as gas costs increase.”REAP: 2026 Fall Energy Speaker Series | Exploring Unified Economic Dispatch (Pt. 2) ·
REAP: 2026 Fall Energy Speaker Series | Exploring Unified Economic Dispatch (Pt. 2) ·
REAP: 2026 Fall Energy Speaker Series | Exploring Unified Economic Dispatch (Pt. 2) ·
REAP: 2026 Fall Energy Speaker Series | Exploring Unified Economic Dispatch (Pt. 2) ·
Antony Scott
“In terms of the Northern Intertie, there is— I mean, this is a live dispute that the RCA will resolve about whether the Intertie agreement must be unwound or not. So right now there are wheeling charges associated with the Northern Intertie.”REAP: 2026 Fall Energy Speaker Series | Exploring Unified Economic Dispatch (Pt. 2) ·
Antony Scott
“one of the things that we really want to solve is making sure that Golden Valley Electric has access to gas imports on the same commercial terms that any of the parties south of the range do. Because that will maximize the benefits of a future unified economic dispatch arrangement, because no party which did have access to gas could use their market power to extract rent associated with a gas cost uplift.”REAP: 2026 Fall Energy Speaker Series | Exploring Unified Economic Dispatch (Pt. 2) ·
Antony Scott
“the answer is, like, this just strikes me as a no-brainer in terms of getting to a more efficient system. The investment is worth it.”REAP: 2026 Fall Energy Speaker Series | Exploring Unified Economic Dispatch (Pt. 2) ·
Antony Scott
“one of the reasons why I see that as a very significant problem is it undermines the commercial and political rationale for getting people pushed together.”REAP: 2026 Fall Energy Speaker Series | Exploring Unified Economic Dispatch (Pt. 2) ·
REAP: 2026 Alaska Gubernatorial Energy Forum ·
REAP: 2026 Alaska Gubernatorial Energy Forum ·
