HomeMy WebLinkAbout3.5 KPEDD supportletter14896 Kenai Spur Highway, Suite 103-A • Kenai, AK 99611
Phone: (907) 283-3335 a Fax: (907) 283-3913
www.kpedd.org
Leadership to enhance, foster and promote economic development
September 19, 2014
Shawn Calfa
Grants Administrator
Alaska Energy Authority
813 West Northern Lights Blvd.
Anchorage, AK 99503
Dear Mr. Cal€a:
KPEDD would like to support Homer Electric Association's in its request for funding of the
Grant Lake Hydroelectric Project through the State's Renewable Energy Grant Program.
The Grant Lake Hydroelectric Project, near Moose Pass, would supply 19,500 MWh per year of
low impact, low cost hydroelectric renewable energy. The displacement of conventional
generation with hydro power would conserve Cook Inlet gas supplies and assist in securing long
term price stability. Using the renewable option would allow for value added products to be
generated into our local economy.
This Project would increase HEA's renewable energy portfolio by 44 percent and assist in
meeting the State of Alaska's renewable energy goal to produce 50 percent of Alaska's electrical
energy from renewable resources by 2025. While it will take the construction of a large scale
project to meet this goal, it is important to pursue smaller projects as well.
Homer Electric Association, through its subsidiary Kenai Hydro, has completed a comprehensive
series of field studies that are part of the requirements to obtain a Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission (FERC) license for this project. These studies have been presented to Stakeholders
and state and federal agencies. The results of these studies are currently being incorporated into
a FERC license application.
I appreciate the efforts of Homer Electric Association to bring long term renewable energy to the
Kenai Peninsula and believe the Grant Lake Hydroelectric Project deserves favorable
consideration in the Round VIII segment of the Alaska Energy Authority's Renewable Energy
Grant Program.
Cordially Yours,
Rick A. A. Roeske
Executive Director
Kenai Peninsula Economic Development District
(907)-283-3335
RRoeskeAKPEDD.ORG
Alaska Regional Development Organization (ARDOR) Economic Development District (EDD)
The State ofAlaska Department of Commerce, Community The U.S. Department of Commerce, Economic
and Economic Development certified KPEDD as an Development Administration (EDA) recognized KPEDD
AARRO ARDOR in 1989. 8 as an Economic Development District in 1988.