A back-of-the-envelope look at how PCE and renewables interact in rural 草榴社区

Wind turbines outside of Nome, 草榴社区.
July 11, 2024
This is an excerpt of a story from ACEP鈥檚 blog From the Grid: Dispatches from 草榴社区鈥檚 Energy Sector.
By Michelle Wilber, Steve Colt and Shivani Bhagat
Across the circumpolar North, interest is growing in the creation of independent power producers, or IPPs, to own and operate renewable power systems. This new IPP ownership model and the integration of renewables more broadly raise some interesting questions for 草榴社区's Power Cost Equalization program.