HomeMy WebLinkAboutCOVER LETTER - AEA Round XV Grant Cover Letter - CI Oil Platform Wind Project - Signed Alaska Electric & Energy Cooperative, Inc.
3977 Lake Street Homer, Alaska 99603 (907) 235-8551
Alaska Electric & Energy Cooperative, Inc. (907) 235-8551
November 18, 2022
AEA 15003 Renewable Energy Grant Application
Alaska Energy Authority
813 W. Northern Lights Blvd.
Anchorage, AK 99503
Dear Alaska Energy Authority:
RE: Renewable Energy Fund Round XV Grant Application
Homer Electric Association, Inc. (HEA) through its generation subsidiary, Alaska Electric and
Energy Cooperative, Inc. (AEEC) appreciates the opportunity to present the enclosed Renewable
Energy Fund Round XV Grant Application for a Reconnaissance level effort to study the
possibility of installing offshore wind turbines on end of life Cook Inlet oil platforms.
This project is an important step towards Homer Electric Association’s and the State of Alaska’s
goals to reach 50% renewable energy and it has the potential to do so while reducing electrical
costs. This project will reduce the consumption of natural gas, thereby conserving Cook Inlet
gas supplies while simultaneously repurposing end of life offshore oil platforms.
HEA/AEEC have invested considerable effort and resources in first pursuing greater efficiencies
in their gas-fired generators and most recently in siting the largest Battery Energy Storage
System (BESS) in the State to now be able to incorporate the type of cost-effective intermittent
renewable energy that this project would produce.
Thank you for this opportunity. Please feel free to contact me with questions at (907) 283-2375.
Sincerely,
Mikel Salzetti
Manager of Renewable Energy Development