# 2025-01757: Alaska Army Base Ditches Old Coal Heat for Safer Vibes

2025-01757, Supplemental Final Environmental Impact Statement Addressing Heat and Electrical Upgrades at Fort Wainwright, Alaska, is a Federal Register notice from Defense Department, Army Department published 2025-01-27, effective The Army anticipates publishing a Notice of Availability (NOA) in 2025 to invite the public to comment on the Supplemental Final EIS. No earlier than 30 days after publication of the Supplemental Final EIS, the Army will sign a Record of Decision.; PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-09-21).

- Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-01757
- As of: 2026-09-21
- Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts.

## Facts
- Document number: 2025-01757
- Title: Supplemental Final Environmental Impact Statement Addressing Heat and Electrical Upgrades at Fort Wainwright, Alaska
- Type: Notice
- Agencies: Defense Department; Army Department
- Citation: 90 FR 8204
- Published: 2025-01-27
- Effective: The Army anticipates publishing a Notice of Availability (NOA) in 2025 to invite the public to comment on the Supplemental Final EIS. No earlier than 30 days after publication of the Supplemental Final EIS, the Army will sign a Record of Decision.
- Comments close: not stated
- Significant: no
- Touches household money: yes
- Regulation identifier numbers: none
- Last updated: 2026-09-21

## In one line

Alaska Army Base Ditches Old Coal Heat for Safer Vibes

## Summary

Fort Wainwright in Alaska is upgrading its super old coal-fired heat and power plant to keep soldiers, families, and workers safe and warm. The Army is making these changes to avoid dangerous outages, save money, and meet new energy rules. They’ll share more details and ask for public feedback in 2025 before finalizing the plan.

## Abstract

The Department of the Army (Army) is supplementing the Final Environmental Impact Statement (Final EIS) addressing heat and electrical upgrades at Fort Wainwright, Alaska. The current coal-fired central heat and power plant (CHPP) and its aging heat distribution system require an upgrade that resolves safety, resiliency, fiscal, and regulatory concerns. After publication of the Final EIS Notice of Availability (NOA) in the Federal Register on February 10, 2023, the Army determined that additional analysis is required prior to the Army executing a Record of Decision.

## Effects PRIA read

- Lower utility costs for the base: benefit, medium. Fort Wainwright relies on a 68-year-old coal-fired plant that heats and powers more than 400 facilities. The Army says building upgraded heat and electrical infrastructure would reduce utility costs for the installation and help meet energy efficiency and air quality rules.
- Reduces risk of dangerous outages: benefit, high. The current central heat and power plant has had critical, near-catastrophic failures and unexpected, installation-wide outages. Constructing upgraded heat and electrical infrastructure would minimize the risk of catastrophic failure that could require evacuation and severely affect mission readine…
- Plan could change fuel use and emissions: mixed, medium. The Army is considering four alternatives: (1) a new coal CHPP; (2) a new dual-fuel combustion turbine CHPP primarily fueled by natural gas; (3) decentralizing heat with distributed natural gas boilers and buying electricity from a local utility; or (4) continuing the current plant with periodic up…

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## Sources
- [2025-01757 on federalregister.gov](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/01/27/2025-01757/supplemental-final-environmental-impact-statement-addressing-heat-and-electrical-upgrades-at-fort)
- [2025-01757 as published (PDF)](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-01-27/pdf/2025-01757.pdf)

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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-01757 (as of 2026-09-21).