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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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On Friday, April 4th, 2025, Renewable Energy Alaska Project’s Public Policy Committee voted to endorse Mark Masteller for re-election to the Matanuska Electric Association (MEA) Board of Directors. REAP’s decision to endorse a candidate for the Matanuska Electric...
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On Friday, April 4th, 2025, Renewable Energy Alaska Project’s Public Policy Committee voted to endorse Erin McKittrick and Mitchell Michaud for election to the Homer Electric Association Board of Directors. REAP’s decision to endorse candidates for the Homer...
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Renewable Energy Alaska Project (REAP) is seeking a Microgrid Project Manager to work with remote Alaskan communities, national laboratories and other partners to help transition rural microgrids to more resilient energy systems. Location: Location: Anchorage, Alaska, with...
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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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