The University of Alaska Fairbanks hosted the Arctic Research Open House in Westridge on campus. Various departments in the scientific field offered activities as learning opportunities. People from Fairbanks turned out for the event.
”We’re taking solar power in, to produce power for the battery bank because solar power is intermittent and batteries need to be charged,” said UAF’s Alaska Center for Energy and Power’s Information Security Lead John Haverlack. He presented the function of a small microgrid using solar power, which was also powering the event.