District 3 Candidate
Board Experience
- Commissioner, Kenai Peninsula Borough / Resilience & Security Advisory Commission, 2025 to Present, Homer
- Treasurer and/or Board Member, Kachemak Nordic Ski Club, 2020 to 2025, Homer
- Chair, Treasurer, and/or Board Member, Renewable Energy Alaska Project, 2013 to 2021, Anchorage
- Council Member, Rabbit Creek Community Council, 2018-2019, Anchorage
Work Experience
Crimp Energy Consulting (2013-2025), Anchorage and Homer. Energy project planning and development (part-time): Clean energy plan for Municipality of Anchorage, biomass district heating system for Pt. Graham, economic reviews for AEA, forest/energy plan for Choggiung Ltd.
Alaska Energy Authority (1993-2012), Anchorage. Deputy Director, Project Manager. Led technical and economic evaluations and AEA oversight of 204 utility-scale construction, design, and feasibility projects totaling $202 million in State funding via the Renewable Energy Fund. Managed a group of engineers and planners responsible for state biomass, energy efficiency, geothermal, hydro, solar, and wind energy programs. Earlier, managed the state's biomass energy program.
Alaska DNR, US Forest Service, Alaska Coastal Management Program (1982-1993). Fairbanks, Dillingham, Hope. Prepared plans for 1.7 million-acre Tanana Valley state forest and 6 million acres of state lands in the Nushagak River drainage. Timber inventory, sale layout, and reforestation in Hope.
Commercial Salmon Fisherman (1988-present). Dillingham. Family Bristol Bay setnet and direct marketing operations.
Main Goal
- Deliver reliable and affordable power to HEA ratepayers.
- Make our power system stronger and more resilient by being open to using diverse energy sources cost-effectively and responsibly.
- Be transparent and responsive to the ratepayers I represent.
HEA's energy picture has changed over the years. Supply of Cook Inlet natural gas to our power plants, which has provided over 85% of our energy for decades, is dwindling. Now we're making plans to import liquefied natural gas from Outside—along with volatile world markets, rising prices, and less local control.
Meanwhile, the potential for using our other local, abundant energy sources—wind, hydro, and solar—has grown as technologies have advanced and become less expensive. And development continues on other potential resources, such as tidal and geothermal. We've already made the wise decision to invest in a large battery system in Soldotna that could help integrate intermittent, zero-fuel-cost wind and solar into the system.
I'm a 44-year resident of Alaska and a former deputy director of Alaska Energy Authority. I'm running for the Homer Electric board because I have a long history in energy planning and project development in Alaska, and I think I can contribute to this cooperative.