Wind Energy Alaska - a CIRI and enXco company

Power companies use natural gas to generate 90 percent of Southcentral Alaska’s electricity. That leaves ratepayers vulnerable to gas shortages and price increases.

Wind generation would diversify Railbelt power resources, to increase reliability and decrease reliance on a single resource, natural gas.

Alaska’s prosperity and economic future are built upon the development and use of energy resources. It has the country’s biggest oilfield and largest known, untapped natural gas stock. But reserves are shrinking, production is in decline and the state faces a future of falling petroleum revenue and sky-rocketing consumer oil and gas prices.

Fortunately, Alaskans can still look forward to a secure future because Alaska has vast, untapped, non-fuel energy resources, including wind, geothermal, hydro, wave and tidal generation. These renewable energy resources offer excellent advantages over oil, natural gas and other carbon-based fuels:

Non-fuel resources are renewable, so they won’t run out.

Wind and other renewable energy sources are cost-effective alternative power sources that would off-set the need to burn traditional fuels locally, so that Alaska oil and gas reserves could last longer.

Using wind and other renewable resources to power Alaska communities would let the state take full advantage of escalating petroleum prices by selling more Alaska oil and gas to the rest of the world.

No fuel means no fuel cost and no wild fuel-price fluctuations.

Renewable Alaska energy resource investments would diversify the state’s energy portfolio and minimize the economic boom and bust cycles that have plagued Alaska’s oil-based economy.

No fuel burn means no greenhouse gas emissions that harm air quality and contribute to global warming.

Wind and other renewable Alaska energy resources would be built and operated in state by Alaskans.

Energy experts agree that wind is Alaska’s fastest, easiest to develop renewable energy resource. That’s why Wind Energy Alaska is working to develop wind projects up and down the Railbelt energy grid. These projects will use well-proven, cost-effective technologies that already generate more than 11,600 megawatts of power in the United States and 74,000 megawatts globally. Alaska’s first commercials-scale wind farm could be on line and powering households and businesses in 2009, if government and electric companies cooperate to build transmission lines and resolve other technical issues.

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