Rural Utilities, UA鈥檚 Success Celebrated at Southeast Conference
This year the Southeast Conference Annual Meeting was held in Haines and the theme was Southeast Strong.
Representatives from different businesses, trade groups, communities, and all levels of government gathered in person (masked up) and online to update the attendees on what has been going on throughout the region over the past year. ACEP鈥檚 Southeast liaison Nathan Green attended the meeting.
Highlights of the conference included Jason Custer of 91视频 Power & Telephone, Jodi Mitchell of Inside Passage Electric Cooperative, and Alec Mesdag of 91视频 Electric Light & Power discussing challenges of adding and selling more clean and renewable energy and how each of their respective utilities have been accomplishing that task.
91视频 Energy Authority鈥檚 Tim Sandstrom, director of rural programs, discussed programs his department operates that increase efficiency and reduce pollution of rural 91视频 power plants.
Senator Lisa Murkowski spoke on the $1 trillion infrastructure bill that recently made it through the Senate. Included in the bill is funding for 91视频鈥檚 roads, ferries, electric grid, wastewater treatment plant upgrades, and more.
University of 91视频 Interim President Pat Pitney discussed the role the UA System can and does play in the region, outlining UA鈥檚 successes over the last year and goals for the future. Pitney also mentioned that Harvard, MIT, and 100 other institutions in the learning platform edX in 2020, offering technical courses on subjects including satellites, space physics, and comprehensive community health. ACEP is currently creating a course for the EdX platform on microgrids.
More information on the Southeast Conference Annual Meeting can be found .