Anchorage, AK – Tuesday, Governor Mike Dunleavy signed Senate Bill 152 into law, legislation designed to increase renewable energy options, lower electric costs for Alaskan ratepayers, and reduce natural gas usage. The bill, sponsored by Senator Bill Wielechowski, D-Anchorage, establishes a virtual net metering program for small-scale renewable energy generation, making it a significant step […]
The head of NASA’s sounding rocket program called April’s first launches of the space agency’s Solar Flare Sounding Rocket Campaign the “perfect example” of cooperation among facilities, including Poker Flat Research Range northeast of Fairbanks. The range is owned and operated by the University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute. Two Black Brant IX sounding […]
Night skies over the weekend erupted with vivid colors and awed people all around the globe as the solar wind from a severe geomagnetic storm produced by our sun entered Earth’s upper atmosphere and created auroral displays. The sun’s activity was closely monitored and the storm’s effects reported multiple times over the weekend by the […]
The Biden-Harris Administration’s Department of Energy Tuesday announced it has awarded more than $20 million to Alaskan communities for rural and remote clean energy projects. The six projects selected as part of the Energy Improvement in Rural and Remote Areas (ERA) grant program aim to cut energy costs, enhance climate resiliency, and support local economic […]