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Tuntutuliak, Kongiginak, Kwigillingok Microgrids

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

CoverageDetailed public record
Named organizations8
System facts22
Sources reviewed7
Last researched2026-07-19

The Chaninik Wind Group deployed related but electrically separate wind-diesel-heat smart grids in Kongiganak, Kwigillingok, and Tuntutuliak. DOE's final report and project pages document five Windmatic turbines per completed village, heat-recovery boilers, 21–30 residential thermal-storage installations per village, advanced metering, and a communications chain linking meters, plant supervisory control, and heater controllers.

Research status
Three-village program completed by 2013; this grouped record does not imply the communities are electrically interconnected
Historical classification
Community
Reported capacity
500 kW
Coordinates
59.87234, -163.16583
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Project delivery

Who was involved in Tuntutuliak, Kongiginak, Kwigillingok Microgrids?

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

Organization

Chaninik Wind Group

Multi-village project organization and DOE award recipient [3][6]

Organization

Frontier Power Systems

Control-system, SCADA, and integration provider for the village systems [7][1]

Organization

Intelligent Energy Systems

Wind-diesel integration and project technical contributor [7][5]

Organization

U.S. Department of Energy Tribal Energy Program

Project funder and technical-program sponsor [3][4][6]

Organization

United Tribal Government of Kipnuk

Program member; the 2013 DOE account says its power-plant construction remained pending [4]

Organization

United Tribal Government of Kongiganak

Participating tribal government [3][4]

Organization

United Tribal Government of Kwigillingok

Participating tribal government [3][4]

Organization

United Tribal Government of Tuntutuliak

Participating tribal government [3][4]

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
1500 [1]
Wind generation per completed village
Five approximately 95 kW Windmatic turbines (about 475 kW per village) [5][3]
Completed project scope
Kongiganak, Kwigillingok, and Tuntutuliak completed by 2013; Kipnuk remained pending in the cited account [4]
Wind penetration
Installed wind capacity exceeded 200% of peak load in each completed village [4][5]
Smart meters
Program plan covered approximately 500 homes [3]
Thermal-storage rollout
Program plan covered 90 homes; individual systems were designed for roughly 21–30 homes [3]
DOE investment
$750,000, with $1.25 million from the participating tribal governments in the DOE success-story accounting [4]
Program fuel-displacement goal
200,000 gallons of diesel across electricity and heating uses [4]

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.

01

Wind turbines

Windmatic — 17-S

Five roughly 95 kW machines in each of the three completed village systems; DOE's early project page rounded the unit rating to 90 kW. [5][3]

02

Microgrid controls

Frontier Power Systems

Wind-diesel supervisory control, SCADA, load regulation, and integration services; the grouped sources span multiple installation years, so one controller hardware revision is not assigned to all villages. [7][1]

03

Smart metering

Model not publicly disclosed

Advanced meters distinguish discounted surplus-wind energy from diesel-generated electricity and communicate availability to residential controls. [3][6]

04

Electric thermal storage

Model not publicly disclosed

Networked residential stoves capture surplus wind as heat; unit counts vary by community and report date, and commercial heater models are not disclosed. [3][4]

05

Heat-recovery boilers

Model not publicly disclosed

Community heating assets also help balance the high-penetration systems; boiler manufacturers and ratings are not stated in the reviewed DOE page. [5]

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

    SCADA computer [1]

  • Storage

    20 Electric Thermal Storage (ETS) stoves [1]

  • Generation

    5 Windmatic 95kW wind turbines [1]

  • Generation

    Diesel Generators [1]

  • Network boundary

    The communities are not connected by road or electrical intertie; each village operates its own diesel microgrid under a shared program design. [5]

  • Control communications

    Advanced meters, the power-plant supervisory controller, and thermal-stove controllers exchange surplus-wind availability and customer-use data. [3]

  • Energy pricing

    The smart-meter architecture enabled surplus wind sold as residential heat at approximately half the cost of diesel heating in the DOE project design. [3][4]

  • Reported outcome

    DOE reported about 30% power-plant fuel reduction and at least 30% heating-fuel reduction for participating ETS homes across the operating systems; these are program-level figures. [4]

  • Specification reconciliation

    DOE's planning page states 90 kW per turbine, while later completion reporting identifies 95 kW units; the page labels the time basis rather than blending the ratings. [3][5]

Provenance

7 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]
    www.bullfrogpower.com

    bullfrogpower.com · Archived source · captured 2021-04-20

  3. [3]
    Chaninik Wind Group — 2010 Project

    U.S. Department of Energy Office of Indian Energy · Primary source

  4. [4]
  5. [5]
    Chaninik Wind Group Pursues Innovative Solutions to Native Alaska Energy Challenges

    U.S. Department of Energy Office of Indian Energy · Primary source

  6. [6]
    Chaninik Wind Group Wind Heat Smart Grids Final Report

    Chaninik Wind Group / U.S. Department of Energy · Primary source

  7. [7]
    Alaska wind-diesel-heat projects

    Frontier Power Systems · Primary source

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