The Clean Energy in Alaska Conference will host a presentation by the Ocean Renewable Power Company about the advancements of their Cook Inlet Tidal Project next week.
Public Relation Specialist Katie Marquette with the Renewable Energy Alaska Project gave us the details.
Marquette: “Ocean Renewable Power company will be talking about their project, they’re a company that is based out of Maine and they are looking at developing hydrokinetic tidal power in Cook Inlet and that project is around Nikiski so they’re going to be giving a presentation to give an update on that project that they’re working out in that region.”
Marquette said Ocean Renewable Power commissioned the first ever commercial tidal power project a couple years ago.
Marquette: “So that’s a still pretty emerging technology but there’s a huge potential for tidal power in Alaska. Alaska has 90% of the nation’s tidal potential for the United States.”
In 2011 Ocean Renewable partnered with Homer Electric Association in order to collaborate on the project that could potentially produce five megawatts of power for approximately 2,300 Kenai Peninsula homes.
The Clean Energy Alaska Conference will be Thursday and Friday at the Dena’ina Convention Center in Anchorage.