UAF research facility device could boost use of renewable energy

Alaska Center for Energy and Power research engineer Jeremy Vandermeer shows the ST100 to a visitor at ACEP’s Power Systems Integration Center on the UAF campus. (Photo by Tim Ellis/KUAC)Engineers at UAF’s Alaska Center for Energy and Power have invented a device that should help promote greater use of renewable-energy sources such as wind and hydropower to generate electricity in small, remote communities. Center officials say development of the ST100 is an important milestone in th