Alaska Network for Energy Education and Employment : REAP

Alaska Network for Energy Education and Employment

Clean energy careers & education

The Alaska Network for Energy Education and Employment (ANEEE) works to ensure that individual Alaskans can find access to the best clean energy learning, training and earning opportunities possible.

ANEEE identifies, maps and connects Alaska’s network of energy champions.

A network of Alaskans

Our state’s clean energy future is dependent on the way Alaskans understand and use energy. Across Alaska, there is an informal network of people and organizations that are dedicated to combating the high cost of energy through energy education and training.

This network includes industry, Alaskan schools, villages, municipalities, state and federal agencies, public and private organizations, Alaska Native corporations and non-profits, electric utilities, trades and individuals. REAP launched ANEEE in 2017 to identify, map and more deeply connect this network of energy champions. ANEEE primarily works to increase the energy literacy of all Alaskans, develop clean energy career pathways and encourage higher learning that fosters a culture of clean energy innovation.

ANEEE works in three broad sectors:

K-12 Education
Career & Technical Education (CTE)
University Instruction

Aligning efforts

The Alaskan spirit of independence is deeply connected to the diversity of our communities, plentiful natural resources, vast spaces and extreme climates.

It comes as no surprise to those living and working in Alaska that these same qualities can also lead to siloed or duplicated efforts, missed opportunities and a lack of coordination that leads to inefficiency.

In an effort to solve these problems, ANEEE:

Identifies and maps existing energy education, training and university programs
Analyzes gaps within these programs
Fosters innovative collaborations to fill gaps
Catalogues curriculum
Facilitates convenings among energy stakeholders
Investigates, evaluates and shares approaches taken in other parts of the world facing similar educational, technical and workforce challenges in the clean energy sector

Advancing education resources

Energy education extends along a spectrum from home to elementary and high school classrooms, into post-secondary education, through community organizations and permeates a wide world of workplaces. The value of a good energy education proves itself everywhere.

ANEEE categorizes energy lessons from the K-12, CTE and University sectors so Alaskans can better understand what lessons are available, and how they can be accessed. Not all energy education opportunities fit into neat categories.

Examples of offerings include a building energy efficiency class that a school principal may be interested in to a public lecture on in-river hydrokinetic technology to a summer camp focused on wind energy. ANEEE works to identify and make available all of these types of opportunities to the wider network it is building.

ANEEE was conceived in conjunction with the Alaska Center for Energy and Power (ACEP) and is funded by the Office of Naval Research (ONR), which also supports REAP’s efforts to expand the understanding of energy through Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM).

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