- Type: document
- Organization: City and Borough of Juneau
- Published On: February 12, 2018
Posts / Curriculum / Energy Education / Renewable Energy / Training
Empowering A New Generation
Teachers care about students and their learning – in large part because students are our hope for the future. A future with some big decisions yet to be made… It’s an ominous task and an enormous responsibility to prepare the next generation for the many...
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Historic Legislation Passes
In the midst of quarantines, social distancing, and uncertainty, we have some much-needed good news to report. On March 20, just before it set aside all non-essential business, the Alaska Legislature passed historic legislation to reform the Railbelt electric grid. The...
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Spring Energy Speaker Series Postponed
Postponed In light of the COVID-19 outbreak, the Spring Energy Speaker Series will be postponed. We are working on creative ways to continue to deliver some of the interesting energy discussions we had planned for this season. In the meantime, please visit our Youtube page...
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- Organization: REAP
- Published On: 2019
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- Organization: REAP
- Published On: 2017
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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Wind
Land-based wind energy is now the cheapest electricity on the planet. In Alaska, there are abundant wind resources available for energy development. High costs associated with fossil fuel-based generation and improvements in wind power technology make this clean, renewable...
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Solar
The cost of utility-scale solar photovoltaic (PV) power has decreased by eighty-nine percent over the last decade and it is now the second cheapest electricity on the planet, according to the research firm Lazard. This precipitous drop in cost, along with successful community...
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Ocean and River Hydrokinetic
Alaska has thousands of miles of coastline, providing potential for tidal and wave energy development. Alaska rivers can also be a potential resource; river in-stream and tidal energy technologies could supply some of Alaska’s energy needs. Tidal and river in-stream energy...
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Hydroelectric
Hydroelectric power, Alaska’s largest source of renewable energy, supplies roughly a quarter of the state’s electricity in an average water year. In 2018, 50 hydro projects provided power to Alaska utility customers, including the Alaska Energy Authority owned 120-MW...
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Geothermal
Alaska has three distinct geothermally active regions: the Interior hot springs, running from the Yukon Territory of Canada to the Seward Peninsula; the Southeast hot springs; and the “Ring of Fire” volcanoes, which include the Aleutians, the Alaska Peninsula, the Wrangell...
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