YK villages serve as models for renewable energy

Dennis Meiners describes the wind turbine system his company designed for the village of Kongiginak at an Alaska Microgrid Partnership meeting in Bethel on Tuesday, April 18, 2017. Meiners leads the company, Intelligent Energy Designs, which is part of the Alaska Microgrid Partnership. (Katie Basile / KYUK)This fall, Kongiganak is set to install a lithium ion battery in its utility system that could replace more than half the village’s electric and heating needs with wind energy. For more