Please log in, or sign up for a new account and purchase a subscription to continue reading.
We have used your information to see if you have a subscription with us, but did not find one. Please use the button below to verify an existing account or to purchase a new subscription.
Your current subscription does not provide access to this content. Please use the button below to manage your account.
The Kodiak Daily Mirror offers full-service, five-day a week subscriptions with home delivery in addition to unlimited access to our online services (including our e-Edition). Online-access-only subscriptions include unlimited access to the Mirror’s online services without delivery of the printed newspaper.
(Note: New users: You must register and login before purchasing a subscription.
Please log in, or sign up for a new account to continue reading.
Thank you for reading! We hope that you continue to enjoy our free content.
Please purchase a subscription to read our premium content. If you have a subscription, please log in or sign up for an account on our website to continue.
Your current subscription does not provide access to this content.
Sorry, no promotional deals were found matching that code.
Promotional Rates were found for your code.
Sorry, an error occurred.
do not remove
DAVIS HOVEY/KMXT
Alaska Solar crewmembers inspecting the solar clamps Tuesday in Ouzinkie.
DAVIS HOVEY/KMXT
Alaska Solar crewmembers inspecting the solar clamps Tuesday in Ouzinkie.
The village of Ouzinkie will have up to 17 hours of solar-powered emergency backup power starting this fall.
The Native Village of Ouzinkie, in collaboration with the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium and Anchorage-based solar vendor Alaska Solar, is expecting a September or October opening for its new solar farm and battery power storage facility.
Kerry Ivory is Native Village of Ouzinkie administrator. She said the village needs backup power for when the community hydro plant is down for maintenance or repair. Diesel backup has become just too expensive.
“As you know diesel comes with a really high price tag for maybe 167 people, so this is to help reduce our dependence on the diesel generators. We’re hoping that in tandem with the hydro we can take the load off the generators you know roughly 70% of the time,” Ivory said.
Ivory said the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium’s Rural Energy Program was invaluable in getting the project off the ground. ANTHC provided expertise in grant writing and project planning, she said.
“The tribe applied for the grant with the assistance of ANTHC Department of Energy grants are pretty high-tech and energy is not really in our wheelhouse.
“It’s not really something that tribe has ever been involved in and it was a little bit too much to take on for the tribe. But thankfully ANTHC stepped up and took management of it for us which is incredible,” Ivory said.
A group of Ouzinkie municipal and tribal employees participated in a training Tuesday leading up to expected commissioning of the project this fall. A battery energy storage system is in place along with the solar array at the old downtown airport.
Your comment has been submitted.
Reported
There was a problem reporting this.
Log In
Keep it Clean. Please avoid obscene, vulgar, lewd, racist or sexually-oriented language.
PLEASE TURN OFF YOUR CAPS LOCK.
Don't Threaten. Threats of harming another person will not be tolerated.
Be Truthful. Don't knowingly lie about anyone or anything.
Be Nice. No racism, sexism or any sort of -ism that is degrading to another person.
Be Proactive. Use the 'Report' link on each comment to let us know of abusive posts.
Share with Us. We'd love to hear eyewitness accounts, the history behind an article.
Now, more than ever, the world needs trustworthy reporting—but good journalism isn’t free. Please support us by subscribing or making a contribution.
Sorry, there are no recent results for popular videos.
Sorry, there are no recent results for popular commented articles.
Before being patched with thick black asphalt during recent weeks, the roads across Goldstream Creek’s swampy valley bucked my car like a whitewater raft in the Nenana River canyon.
Alaskans will decide whether to overhaul the state’s elections system with a ballot measure that would repeal ranked choice voting, reinstate closed primaries and repeal campaign disclosure rules established in 2020.
Television host Mike Rowe has repeatedly stated over the years that his show “Dirty Jobs” is “a love letter to my grand dad and people like him” to showcase several of the hands-on, blue collar careers. He doubled down on that belief Friday in a panel discussion at the Fairbanks Pipeline Tra…
Your browser is out of date and potentially vulnerable to security risks.
We recommend switching to one of the following browsers:
