ABSTRACT
This chapter offers a survey of the transition from diesel fuel to renewable energy in remote Alaska Native communities through the lens of path dependency and creation. As the shift from diesel to renewable energy can be understood as a shift away from colonial transportation routes that lock in money and sovereignty flows out of Native villages towards a sustainable, Native-empowering remote energy model, the chapter argues that a combination of top-down and bottom-up catalysts opened a path to redefine the periphery–core relationship, empower Native Alaskan communities, and build community-based sustainability in electricity and heating generation in remote villages.
