North America / Commercial & demonstration

Kodiak Alaska Microgrid

Organizations, planners, suppliers, equipment, controls, and reported system specifications—with source-level citations.

CoverageDetailed public record
Named organizations1
System facts8
Sources reviewed2
Last researched2026-07-19

Kodiak Alaska Microgrid is catalogued as a commercial & demonstration system in North America.

Research status
Operational
Historical classification
Community
Reported capacity
75,000 kW
Coordinates
57.79000, -152.40722
Evidence note: “Every company” cannot be proven from public material alone. This page lists every organization found in the recovered record and reviewed sources, preserves unknown roles, and explicitly marks undisclosed controller or equipment details.

Project delivery

Who was involved in Kodiak Alaska Microgrid?

1 publicly identified organizations. Where a recovered source named a participant without explaining its work, the role remains explicitly unspecified.

Organization

ABB

Publicly named participant; role not specified in the recovered record [1]

System evidence

Reported capacity and specifications

Values can describe different project phases or components. Source citations are attached to each figure so discrepancies remain visible.

KW Wind
9000 [1]
KW Gas/Diesel
33000 [1]
KW Hydro
5000 [1]
Storage
5/2 MW/MWH [1]

Controls and hardware

Equipment and controller details

Manufacturer and model are shown only when a source names them. Generic descriptions are not converted into guessed product assignments.

No controller or equipment model was found in the reviewed public sources. This is a disclosure gap, not evidence that the project lacks coordinated controls.

Recovered detail

Additional technical notes

Concise system facts recovered from the historical project record. Treat these as historical unless a newer primary source confirms them.

  • Management

    The Kodiak microgrid is an islanded grid, meaning there is no interconnection with any outside grid. [1]

  • Storage

    Kodiak’s 3 MW (2 MWh) gel lead-acid battery contributes to the stability of the system, and KEA recently added two 1 MW flywheel systems. [1]

  • Storage

    The flywheel will take over some of the workload from the battery, which currently charges and discharges around 1,000 times each day. [1]

  • Storage

    The pairing of multiple types of storage that operate on different time scales effectively matches system needs, especially when variable renewable penetration is high. [1]

Provenance

2 sources

Primary owner, government, university, supplier, and engineering sources are preferred. Archived references preserve claims whose original pages moved or disappeared.

  1. [1]
    Recovered Microgrid Projects record

    Internet Archive · Archived source · captured 2021-04-20

  2. [2]
    Renewable Microgrids Report from Rocky Mountain Institute

    rmi.org · Archived source · captured 2021-04-20