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Transportation of diesel fuel used to produce electricity for Alaska remote communities is highly expensive. Thus, people living in those remote areas pay a high rate for electric energy compared to the national average cost. The availability of renewable energy resources may help to minimize these high expenses. As many rural Alaskans live near rivers, hydrokinetic energy could be used as a renewable source of electric power. This renewable resource, if successfully harvested, has immense potential to help power Alaska remote communities and significantly reduce electric energy costs. This project aims to investigate the implementation of an energy conversion system to harvest riverine power by utilization of a novel hydrokinetic energy harvesting system through field testing and modelling. An electrical power generator, specifically a permanent magnet synchronous generator (PMSG), was selected to be used for mechanical-to-electrical energy conversion within a low-speed range. Unregulated electric power produced by the generator was rectified and filtered to produce smooth DC power. A maximum power point tracking (MPPT) current controller was implemented in the Simulink® environment to demonstrate how to extract the maximum power available at the generator output under different water velocities and load conditions.