About the report

The 2024 Alaska Electricity Trends Report summarizes electricity data gathered from federal, state and utility sources. It provides an overview of electricity capacity, generation, consumption and price trends from 2011 to 2021.

The comprehensiveness of the report is significant. Electricity data in Alaska is fragmented because no one agency is in charge of maintaining records from all communities in the state. In other places with federal reporting requirements, most data are accessible via the U.S. Energy Information Administration. In contrast, while some communities in Alaska report to the EIA, most communities report only to the Alaska Energy Authority as their operations are not large enough to require federal reporting. Remaining data gaps were filled with information found in filings with the Regulatory Commission of Alaska.

As a comprehensive report highlighting electricity trends has not been produced for the state of Alaska since 2013’s Alaska Energy Statistics Report, this report is a new chance to inform public officials and other stakeholders about the state of the electric generation sector in Alaska.

Report contents

Chapters

• Key Takeaways
• Installed Generation Capacity
• Net/Gross Generation by Fuel Type
• Consumption and Sales
• Price of Electricity
• Data Preparation Methods

The interactive version additionally includes:

• Data Portal
• A table of previous Electric Power Statistics Reports back to 1969

Acknowledgements

Funding

Funding support for this team was provided by leveraging support from multiple partners that include:

• Office of Naval Research’s Alaska Regional Collaboration for Technology Innovation and Commercialization program (award #N00014-19-1-2235)
• Denali Commission – Alaska Energy Project Partnerships (award #1659)
• State of Alaska

Note: Any opinions, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the funding supporters.

Partners

• Alaska Center for Energy and Power at the University of Alaska Fairbanks
• Institute of Social and Economic Research at the University of Alaska Anchorage
• Alaska Energy Authority
• DOWL Engineering

Data used in the energy workbooks comes from a variety of sources and partners, but special thanks to the Alaska Energy Authority for partnering with the team to make the base line power cost equalization datasets available. Without this openness, this report would not be possible. We would also like to thank the utilities who responded directly when we had questions.