Cordova has long been a leader in coastal community innovation. Read on (and check out the video at the link) to learn about how one project to improve community resilience here may benefit isolated and islanded communities anywhere.
Careful grid investments that marry remote microgrid Alaskan street-smarts with the high technology of our national laboratories and US Department of Energy are paying big dividends - tens of thousands of gallons of diesel fuel savings annually and improved reliability for the citizens of Cordova, Alaska, one of the nation's most important seafoods ports and home to the world famous Copper River Salmon.