- Type: document
- Organization: U.S. Department of Energy
- Published On: 2013
People, Policy, & Finance / Energy Efficiency / Renewable Energy
The Clean Energy Workforce
Alaska is a laboratory for clean energy innovation. Engineers, technicians, designers and dreamers are standing up microgrid systems that integrate wind, hydro, solar and other renewable resources that power homes, villages communities and cities. Cold climate construction...
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Energy Efficiency
Energy efficiency is a commonsense first step in realizing renewable energy targets. It’s also a critical component of an effective climate change adaptation and mitigation strategy. Energy efficient buildings, lighting, heating systems and appliances provide the same level...
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Alaska’s Energy Infrastructure
With 16 percent of the country’s landmass and less than 0.3 percent of its population, Alaska’s unique geography has driven development of its energy supply infrastructure — power plants, power lines, natural gas pipelines, bulk fuel tank farms and related facilities. ...
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Alaska Clean Energy Legislation
In 2008, the Cold Climate Housing Research Center published the first of two reports outlining recommended state programs, initiatives, and goals to reduce end-use energy demand and keep hundreds of millions of dollars in the state’s economy each year. That year, the state...
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Commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy & Resilience
Commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy & Resilience (C-PACER) is an innovative financing program that enables owners of commercial and industrial properties to obtain low-cost, long-term financing for energy efficiency, renewable energy and resilience projects and then...
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Clean Energy Funds
Clean energy funds support the development of renewable energy and energy efficiency by helping remove market barriers and educating the public. State clean energy funds are supported through small, mill-rated utility surcharges called system benefit charges. Programs that...
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How many earths does it take?
This semester, I embarked on the journey of getting an Occupational Endorsement in Sustainable Energy from the University of Fairbanks. The program and most of the classes are headed by Mark Masteller, a colleague and energy expert, but maybe more importantly, a...
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Peace of Keex’
Apart from the occasional din of airplanes and the year-round thrumming of diesel generators, the peace of Keex’ (Kake) is one of the most compelling qualities of this quiet Tlingit cultural stronghold in the middle of Alaska’s panhandle. Driven by the two-year-long...
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Hoonah High Home Energy Costs – H.E.L.P. is on the Way!
Residents in remote Southeast Alaska communities typically pay a considerably larger portion of their income for energy than do their more urban counterparts, due to the greater costs associated with providing heating oil and electricity to small, remote populations. Space...
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