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Truly understanding the importance of energy in our lives doesn’t just happen overnight. That’s why REAP was thrilled to build on its partnership with Kusilvak Career Academy to deliver two weeks-long clean energy courses for their students in 2025. Last year, REAP staff...
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Every day, small staffs of rural Alaska utilities pull off the Herculean and often unseen work of maintaining electricity, water, and bulk fuel services to their communities. Every aspect of community life relies on their meticulous completion of operator logs, oil changes,...
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More than 2,000 students from 92 fourth through twelfth grade classrooms participated in the 2025 Power Pledge Challenge, an initiative aimed at helping youth better understand energy use. This year’s state prize winner is Marty Dean’s 4th grade class in Juneau! ...
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Jenny Starrs, REAP’s Program Manager for the Alaska Network for Energy Education and Employment, opened the meeting by addressing a challenge familiar to nearly every industry in Alaska: a shrinking local workforce. With more than a decade of net outmigration and the highest...
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RE+ Alaska will bring together clean energy professionals to discuss real-world solutions helping to spur electrification for tribal and rural communities. With a focus on the people and projects accelerating Alaska’s energy transition, tribal funding opportunities, and...
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Since he founded the organization 21 years ago, Chris Rose has guided and grown REAP into the nonprofit partner trusted across Alaska and known throughout the world for its work to promote renewable energy and energy efficiency solutions for the benefit of all Alaskans. Under...
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Safe, reliable, and efficient bulk fuel operations are crucial for the successful operations of powerhouses, generators, and any integrated renewable technology in Alaska’s rural communities. But funding support for repairing or replacing bulk fuel facilities has been...
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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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On Friday, April 4th, 2025, Renewable Energy Alaska Project’s Public Policy Committee voted to endorse Katherine Jernstrom for election to the Chugach Electric Association Board of Directors. REAP’s decision to endorse a candidate for the Chugach Electric Board of...
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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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