The site for the proposed Little Mount Susitna Wind farm northwest of Anchorage receives more wind as temperatures fall, which would reduce natural gas demand at critical times, the developers and a utility say.
“When wind is available, gas assets can catch up,” said Matt Perkins, a co-founder of Alaska Renewables, the company behind the wind farm.
The utility has also determined, based on data from Alaska Renewables, that during the cold snap the site would have provided “above-average production,” Hasquet said. That wind power “could have helped reduce gas requirements” on the energy system from Homer to Fairbanks, she said.receives more wind as temperatures drop in Anchorage, due in part to the area’s geographic characteristics.
Alaska Renewables co-founder Andrew McDonnell, a former oceanographer at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, said he studied historical wind data available at the university, as well as data from other sources, to select the Little Mount Susitna site. The farm should produce “at or near its maximum power rating during these coldest periods of gas system and grid stress,” the company said in a statement.Deep winter cold spells are “often associated with high pressure in the Interior spilling towards lower pressure in the Gulf of Alaska,” Chugach Electric said in a statement. “When this occurs, the wind is funneled through the LMS area, even when the air may be calm around Anchorage.
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