The project would be located on Lower Sweetheart Lake and Sweetheart Creek, within the City and Borough of Juneau, Alaska. The project would occupy 2,058.24 acres of Federal lands within Tongass National Forest, administered by the USDA, Forest Service. The project would also occupy 131.18 acres of tideland and submerged lands of the State of Alaska. The proposed project would generate an average of about 116,000 megawatt-hours of energy annually.

New ERA awardee, Central Electric Power Cooperative, Inc., will purchase a quantity of clean energy. After the purchase is made, the RUS grant can reimburse the awardee up to 25 percent of the cost. RUS’s PPA grants provide operating capital. 

Staff Assignment Name: Suzanne Kopich
Project Submittal Date: December 2024
Project Approval Date: January 21, 2025
DOE CE Applied: B4.1

Associated Electric Cooperative, Inc. proposes to construct the Turney Energy Center project.  It will be a new natural gas-fired simple-cycle electric generating facility with approximately 45 acres of disturbance.  The project site is approximately 2 miles southwest of Turney, in Clinton County, Missouri.  The project includes construction of 1,000 feet of natural gas line, 1.5 miles of water line, 2 miles of transmission line, and reconstruction of 2.5 miles of transmission line.

When Dealila Huskey, Technology Coordinator for the Dolores County School District, heard high-speed fiber internet was coming to her area in Dove Creek, Colorado, she was skeptical. She’d heard promises of that sort before, and it had become almost a pattern to witness companies give up or stop short before reaching her. 

When Dealila Huskey, Technology Coordinator for the Dolores County School District, heard high-speed fiber internet was coming to her area in Dove Creek, Colorado, she was skeptical. She’d heard promises of that sort before, and it had become almost a pattern to witness companies give up or stop short before reaching her.