- Type: document
- Organization: Sunstone Electric
- Published On: February 28, 2025
- Type: document
- Organization: University of Alaska Fairbanks Bristol Bay Campus
- Published On: February 28, 2025
Posts / ANEEE / Building Science / Energy Efficiency / Workforce
Increasing Pathways For Energy Efficiency Careers in Alaska
Alaska consistently ranks among some of the most energy intensive and expensive states in the country. Wasted energy from poorly designed homes, leaky building envelopes, and aging housing stock is especially harmful in rural and remote areas, where energy costs often double...
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Banding Together: Energy Experts Share Lessons Learned from Heat Pump Projects with the Alaska Energy Training Group
Heat pump projects are growing rapidly throughout Alaska, with incentives in the form of tax credits and upcoming rebates through Alaska Housing Finance Corporation (AHFC) and grant programs set to help install over 7,000 heat pumps throughout coastal communities and the...
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- Published On: August 15, 2024
Posts / Alaska Specific / ANEEE / Energy Education / Renewable Energy / Rural Alaska / Workforce
Uplifting Energy Education and Careers in the Lake and Peninsula Borough
Inside Newhalen School, past puddles of melting snow outside, the main hallway was lined with duffels, sleeping bags, snow boots, and parkas. The gear was grouped under handwritten signs: “Tanalian, Perryville, Chignik Lagoon, Chignik Lake, Igiugig, Meshik, Nondalton,...
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Powering Your Future: Igniting Curiosity and Exploration in Energy Careers
This spring, REAP’s Alaska Network for Energy Education and Employment developed and taught a new energy career visibility and readiness course for a cohort of 11th graders from the Lower Yukon School District. The Powering Your Future course built on a yearslong partnership...
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Rural Independent Power Producers: Who and What Does It Take?
These non-utility companies are often private, for-profit entities that generate and sell power to electric utilities through power purchase agreements. But in rural Alaska, where markets typically aren’t large enough to entice private investment, consortium-backed and...
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- Organization: SAE International
- Published On: 2023
Posts / Alaska Specific / ANEEE / Renewable Energy / Rural Alaska / Training / Workforce
People in Power Training Coordination in Full Swing
Training coordination program People in Power (PIP) has been hard at work this spring. The initiative, funded by the Denali Commission, the Department of Energy’s Arctic Energy Office, and the Rural Alaska Community Action Program and executed by REAP, improves performance...
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An Energy Secure Angoon: Catalyzing Career Pathways for Youth
A newly funded hydropower project 40 years in the making aims to bring energy security and resilience to Angoon. Regional partnerships, including a winter career fair, are empowering youth to play a central role in the community’s energy future.
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Home Energy Basics With a Hands-On Twist
To expand the energy literacy and skills of teens from the Lower Yukon, REAP led a collaboration of cross-disciplinary educators to teach a Home Energy Basics course at Kusilvak Career Academy this fall.
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