In this Tuesday, July 16, 2019, drone photo released by the University of Alaska Fairbanks and Alaska Center for Energy and Power, Gov. Mike Dunleavy, center rear, poses for photos in front of a ...

A technology almost as simple as a Yukon River fishwheel could one day power the laptop computers and microwave ovens of Alaska's river people. In Ruby it's beginning to do just that. Last summer, the ...

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In Yup'ik, the word "igiugig" means "like a throat that swallows water," so it's more than fitting that the village of the same name would be the test ground for one of Alaska's first river-powered ...

PORTLAND, Maine — The Portland-based company that piloted a tidal power generator in Cobscook Bay announced its smaller-scale river generator project has won another $1.5 million from the U.S.

Portland-based Ocean Renewable Power Co.'s RivGen power turbine is shown prior to be lowered into the Kvichak River at the remote Alaskan village of Igiugig last August. COURTESY / OCEAN RENEWABLE ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A tiny Native village in southwest Alaska has turned to an emerging technology to transform the power of a local river into a sustainable energy source that’s expected to free ...