Appendix D: Acknowledgements and Roles

About the Team that Created the 2024 Alaska Electricity Trends Report

D.1 Acknowledgements

Funding

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

• Office of Naval Research’s (ONR) Alaska Regional Collaboration for Technology Innovation and Commercialization (ARCTIC) 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 (ACEP) at the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF)
• Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER) at the University of Alaska Anchorage (UAA)
• Alaska Energy Authority (AEA)
• DOWL

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. A full list of these organizations has been complied in Section 2.1.

D.2 Credits and Roles

The Alaska Electrical Trends report has been produced by the Alaska Center for Energy and Power (ACEP) at the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF). It is a collaboration between data scientists, researchers, and policy experts. Roles here are described by Contributor Roles Taxonomy (CRediT).

Authors

• Jesse Kaczmarski¹
  • Roles: data curation, formal analysis, project administration, software, validation, visualization, writing – original draft
• Ian MacDougall¹
  • Roles: data curation, formal analysis, software, validation, visualization, writing – original draft
• Steve Colt¹
  • Roles: data curation, formal analysis, investigation, validation, writing – review & editing
• Elizabeth (Liz) Dobbins¹
  • Roles: software, project administration, resources, supervision, writing – review & editing
• Neil McMahon²
  • Roles: data curation, investigation, validation
• Sara Fisher-Goad³
  • Roles: conceptualization, validation, writing – review & editing
• Brittany Smart³
  • Roles: project administration, writing – review & editing

Acknowledgements

The authors gratefully acknowledge the contributions of additional members of the team, especially Dayne Broderson as the project coordinator of the ARCTIC program and Gwen Holdmann as the Principal Investigator who conceptualized this report.

• Dayne Broderson¹
  • Roles: conceptualization, visualization, writing – original draft
• Gwen Holdmann¹
  • Roles: conceptualization, writing – original draft
• Emily Richmond¹
  • Roles: software, visualization
• Shivani Bhagat¹
  • Roles: validation, writing – review & editing
• Erika Boice¹
  • Roles: writing – review & editing

Affiliations

1. Alaska Center for Energy and Power (ACEP), University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF)
2. Project Manager, DOWL
3. Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF)