Events / Alaska Specific / ETIPP / Presentation / Renewable Energy / Rural Alaska
With the application period now open for communities interested in joining Cohort 5, the ETIPP team has been sharing lots of information online and via informational webinars about the program itself. Against this backdrop, REAP Microgrid Project Managers, Haleigh Reed and...
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Ms. McKittrick’s first such piece, titled “Energy conservation is good. And raises electric rates. What does that mean for net metering reforms?” can be accessed here. And her most recent write-up titled, “What would we get with the Annual Net Metering bill?” is...
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In summary, Dr. Wight’s paper (available online here), “asks: how did the Railbelt electrify and become a grid? The paper finds that Alaskans, with the indispensable support of the federal government, built 2.7 gigawatts of generation and over 1,600 miles of...
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House Bill 153 and its companion bill, Senate Bill 149, would establish an RPS for Alaska’s Railbelt, requiring the region’s electric utilities to diversify their generation portfolios and generate an increasing percentage of their electricity from renewable...
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Six Alaska teams have been invited to the World KidWind competition after 28 teams competed in person and virtually for the top spots in Alaska’s Clean Energy Olympics. Elementary, middle, and high school teams across the state built model wind and solar projects and...
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