Consul General of India visits ACEP
July 29, 2025
Consul General of India Prakash Gupta asks ACEP Energy Facility Technology Manager David Light questions during his visit. On Gupta’s right stand UAF Vice Chancellor of Research Laura Conner and ACEP Deputy Director for Strategic Initiatives Leasi Vanessa Lee Raymond.
Two representatives of the visited UAF in July. Consul General Prakash Gupta and Consul Advisor Debadutta Dash toured ACEP’s Energy Technology Facility, which houses laboratories, equipment and infrastructure to support ACEP’s research, with Laura Conner, UAF vice chancellor of research along with a photojournalist from the Consulate.
They learned from the ETF staff about remote, islanded microgrids, common energy systems in the Arctic and the specific ways the ETF lab helps test energy technologies and integrations before they go out to Alaska communities.
With India as an observer in the Arctic Council, the attendees discussed the similarities between ships and remote microgrids as it relates to Arctic security, energy and testing.