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Pelican's hydro plant can keep running while FERC reviews a new license
Pelican's city-owned hydroelectric plant can keep running under the terms of its expired federal license while regulators review the city's application for a new one, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission said in a notice signed Tuesday. The old license expired Sept. 16.
Under federal law, the commission issues an annual license when a license expires before it has acted on a new one. This one runs through Sept. 16, 2027, and renews automatically if no new license has been issued, unless the commission orders otherwise.
The 0.7-megawatt plant on Pelican Creek uses a rock-filled crib dam 22 feet high and runs on the creek's natural flow rather than on water stored behind the dam.
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October 2026
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About Pelican
Pelican, also known by its Tlingit name K'udeis'x̱'e, is a small boardwalk community on Chichagof Island in Southeast Alaska, part of the Hoonah-Angoon Census Area. It sits on Lisianski Inlet and has no road connection, relying on ferry and air service.
The town is known for its fishing industry and its remote location. Its questions are those of a roadless community: subsidized air service, federal support for broadband, and the upkeep of its own hydroelectric plant and the license it operates under.
Weather also reaches the town directly, as when windstorms bring down trees onto homes.