WHEREAS, Alaska is filled with more sustainable energy potential than nearly any place on earth and has produced this energy under the highest environmental standards for decades. That potential includes generation from renewable sources such as wind, solar, hydro, tidal, biomass, geothermal, and hydrogen sources, but it also includes nuclear, oil, natural gas, coal, and carbon capture technologies as well as energy storage; and
WHEREAS, energy security is national security and Alaska is home to 57 of the 60 minerals on the 2025 U.S. List of Critical Minerals including graphite, cobalt, rare earths, zinc, copper, and silver that can help boost a resilient power grid, advancing technologies, battery storage and reshore domestic production and processing; and
WHEREAS, in January 2025, President Donald J. Trump issued an Executive Order Unleashing Alaska’s Extraordinary Resource Potential, which directs the federal government to facilitate and expedite energy development in Alaska – including advancing the permitting and leasing of resource projects, prioritizing the development of Alaska’s liquefied natural gas (LNG) potential, and ending unnecessary restrictions on energy development on federal lands such as the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska and the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge; and
WHEREAS, the Alaska LNG Project has entered a definitive agreement with the private sector for development of an 807-mile pipeline, liquefaction facility and a carbon removal and sequestration plant. The project, which is the only fully permitted export project on the U.S. West Coast, is among the lowest carbon impact projects on the planet and will lower energy costs and improve air quality for Alaskans, while providing energy security for decades to our Pacific allies; and
WHEREAS, the fifth annual Alaska Sustainable Energy Conference in May 2026 brought together more than 1,000 government leaders, industry experts, investors and international partners to showcase Alaska’s unmatched energy opportunities and reinforce the state’s leadership across the full spectrum of energy development.
NOW THEREFORE, I, Mike Dunleavy, GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF ALASKA, do hereby proclaim September 14-18, 2026 as:
Alaska Clean Energy Week
throughout the State of Alaska, and encourage all Alaskans, local governments, corporations, and small businesses to support common sense solutions to develop sustainable energy for our future.
Dated: September 14, 2026
