 The total installed capacity has reached 3-MW, displacing approximately 250,000 gallons of diesel fuel every year.On September 2, 2015, U.S. President Barack Obama gave a speech on global warming, in Kotzebue, becoming the first sitting president to visit a site north of the Arctic Circle.Kotzebue lies on a gravel spit at the end of the Baldwin Peninsula in the Kotzebue Sound.