The King Cove Municipal Utility is a very small, isolated electric system at the western end of the Alaska Peninsula – about 625 miles SW on Anchorage. The City of King Cove is also one of Alaska’s premier fishing communities that has been in operation since 1911.
We are good at what we do because Mother Nature provides a melting glacier, a winter snow-pack runoff, and plenty of rain throughout the year! Our two, run-of-the-river hydro facilities produce 90% of our annual demand for 5MW for our community of about 700 people. Delta Creek is our first and oldest hydro that came on-line in December 1993 and immediately replaced about 50% of our diesel generated power. Our second facility, Waterfall Creek, which came online in 2017. Together, these two hydro facilities produce 4.5 MW of our annual 5MW demand.
Also, our utility also has an estimated “surplus” capacity of between 1 and 2 MW that we are hoping to sell to our local fish processor in King Cove. There have also been numerous contacts about using our renewable energy surplus to become a data center.
