BBC Features �ֻ�ֱ��’s Solar Energy

The web section introduced the rest of the world to �ֻ�ֱ�� last week in an article titled “The world’s most unlikely solar farms.”

The article features the largest installations in the state — the 1.35-megawatt solar farm developed by in Willow and the 563-kilowatt in Fairbanks.

The article describes ACEP’s ongoing collaborative research on snow-shedding coatings. It explains how the solar production, and business economics, in winter months could benefit from snow-shedding solar panels.

Chris Pike and Bax Bond recently installed eight panels on the GVEA array and 16 on the RIPP array. The panels were treated with anti-adhesion coatings.

With the precipitous drop in solar panel costs in the last decade, there has been a surge in interest in solar energy technology in northern latitudes.

Learn more about ACEP’s Solar Technologies Program here.

 

Nathan Minnema cleans snow off a solar panel at the GVEA solar array. Photo by Amanda Byrd.