Gustavus Electric Company in Gustavus, Hoonah-Angoon, United States | Civil / Building

Welcome to Gustavus Electric Company. Gustavus Electric Company, Inc. (GEC) was established in 1983. At that time, there was no central provider of electricity in the Gustavus and Glacier Bay forelands area. Gustavus Electric was organized to provide that area and community with a modern, centralized, reliable source of commercially generated electricity.

In September 1998, the US Congress passed an act enabling Gustavus Electric Company access to the Falls Creek drainage as a source of hydroelectric energy upon successful completion of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) licensing process. Detailed environmental studies began in 1996. An Environmental Assessment and application for the FERC license was submitted in 2001. The FERC license for the project was issued on October 29, 2004. Construction began April 1, 2006.

The Falls Creek Project site is located approximately 5 miles east of Gustavus, Alaska and about 45 miles west of Juneau , Alaska . The project will be a run-of-river facility, consisting generally of 3.1 miles of access road, a low gated diversion structure at about El 670 on Falls Creek, a 9,400 feet long penstock, a powerhouse containing a single 800 kW generating unit, a tailrace conduit for conveying the powerhouse discharge to near the upstream limit of anadromous fish habitat, and a 5-mile long buried transmission cable between the powerhouse and the existing diesel powerhouse in Gustavus. The project is being constructed on land owned by the State of Alaska.