**6. Acknowledgment**

The authors would like to thank Peter Crimp of the Alaska Energy Authority and Dennis Meiners of Intelligent Energy Systems for providing the power system information and data for the sample village electric power system. The authors would also like to thank Siemens, Entegrity Wind Systems (formerly Atlantic Orient Corporation), Caterpillar (Detroit Diesel) and GNB Industrial for providing the design specifications for the PV panels, wind turbines, diesel-electric generator and battery bank, respectively.
