Solar panel at the Kachemak Bay Conservation Center
 

Encouraging green power purchasing, energy efficiency, and increased local renewable energy infrastructure.

Energy production is one of the biggest producers  of greenhouse gases in the area.  Every time a light bulb is switched on, nearly 95% of the electricity used to power that bulb come from burning natural gas here on the peninsula.  There are two ways to solve this problem:

• Produce power from renewable sources

• Reduce the need for power through conservation

Our local power utility, Homer Electric Association (HEA), does not produce any of its power from coal, which releases much more CO₂ than natural gas.   There are a few examples of small-scale power generation on the peninsula using wind and solar but HEA is also looking into larger scale renewable sources. 

The most immediate solution, however, is NOT up to HEA.   It is OUR responsibility to CONSERVE, CONSERVE, CONSERVE!

• Measure your home’s carbon footprint!   Just enter your zip code, select “home” and begin the process of getting recommendations on how to save.

• Renewable Energy Alaska Project (REAP) is a coalition of urban and rural Alaska utilities, businesses, conservation and consumer groups, and Alaska Natives with an interest in developing Alaska's vast renewable energy resources.

• Support Alaska Renewable Energy-Buy Denali Green Tags

• Renewable Energy Atlas of Alaska
  A Guide to Alaska's Clean, Local, and Inexhaustible Energy Resources

• Everything you need to know about your home from the Alaska Housing Finance Corporation on:  appliances, heating, lighting, water heating, ventilation, mold, ice dams, moisture on windows, weatherizing, insulation air sealing, home improvement and remodeling, new homes, renewable energy: solar, wind, micro-hydro, etc.