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We have organized and hosted eleven Alaska Renewable Energy Fairs and six Business of Clean Energy in Alaska conferences that brought expert speakers from around the world to Anchorage to meet and network with Alaskans. Speakers have included former CIA director James Woolsey, former National Security Advisor Robert McFarlane and Governors Bill Ritter (CO), Chet Culver (IA) and Jennifer Granholm (MI). Don’t miss the fun! Sign up to receive updates on upcoming events.

[2026 Spring Energy Speaker Series] Toward a More Efficient Railbelt: Exploring Unified Economic Dispatch

May 21, 202612:00 pmZoom

Railbelt electricity ratepayers are already feeling the sting of rising energy costs due to dwindling supplies of Cook Inlet gas. The region’s electric utilities are stepping into the global market for natural gas to bridge the gap, just as we watch global fossil fuel prices rise and grow more volatile. But there may be institutional changes and innovation that can blunt some of the cost increases that are...

[2026 Spring Energy Speaker Series] Lighting the Way: Alaska’s Clean Energy Workforce Opportunities

May 6, 202612:00 pmZoom

With Alaska experiencing more than a decade of net outmigration and record high levels of nonresident workers, we must invest in our state’s homegrown workforce. This need is especially acute in the clean energy sector, where the ripple effects of an insufficient workforce are felt across industries and communities in the form of high energy costs, unreliable service, and environmental impacts. REAP’s...

[2026 Spring Energy Speaker Series] Grid to Table: Alaska’s Food/Energy Nexus

April 23, 20266:00 pmThe Anchorage Museum - 625 C Street, Anchorage, AK 99501

This second installment in REAP’s 2026 Spring Energy Speaker Series, “Grid to Table: Alaska’s Food/Energy Nexus,” centered on our food systems, the role energy plays in them, and what Alaska’s energy trends mean for our future food security. Whether you’re a policymaker, community leader, or simply interested in the future of Alaska, this event offered a unique opportunity to learn, ask questions,...

[2026 Spring Energy Speaker Series] Keeping Warm: What Can We Do in the Face of Rising Gas Prices?

March 26, 20265:30 pmThe Nave - 3502 Spenard Road, Anchorage, AK 99503

Cook Inlet gas is used to heat three out of every four homes in Southcentral Alaska and generate roughly 75% of the region’s electricity. For years, the Alaska Department of Natural Resources has projected that supply is likely to fall short of demand as soon as 2027. Now, the region’s utilities are exploring much more expensive gas import options to fill the gap. While rising gas prices will contribute...

RE+ Alaska

October 20, 20258:00 amWilliam A. Egan Civic & Convention Center - 555 W 5th Ave, Anchorage, AK 99501

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 emerging technologies, this event seeks to bring Indigenous knowledge, innovation, and renewable energy solutions together to create a brighter,...

REAP’s Anchorage Leadership Handoff & Fundraiser

August 27, 20255:30 pmKing Street Brewing Company - 9050 King Street, Anchorage, AK 99515

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 Chris’s leadership, REAP has grown from one person to a trained staff of 15 professionals in offices in both Anchorage and Juneau....

[2025 Spring Energy Speaker Series] Off-Roading with REAP: Tales from Community Energy Engagement in Rural Alaska

June 4, 202512:00 pmZoom

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 Savannah Crichton, were keen to share some of their experiences and learnings gleaned from their community energy engagement work in...

[2025 Spring Energy Speaker Series] Harvesting the Midnight Sun: Annual Net Metering Potential in the Railbelt

May 21, 202512:00 pmZoom

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 available here. Against the backdrop of impending shortfalls in supply of Cook Inlet natural gas and the resulting need to source an increasing...

[2025 Spring Energy Speaker Series] Electrifying Alaska’s Railbelt: A Generation and Transmission History

May 7, 202512:00 pmZoom

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 high-voltage transmission lines. Development proceeded organically with Alaska’s wider economy and boomed periodically with distinct “golden...

[2025 Spring Energy Speaker Series] A Renewable Portfolio Standard for Alaska’s Railbelt

April 23, 2025YouTube

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 sources over the coming years. REAP and its partners have been developing and advocating for Railbelt RPS legislation for more than three years,...

November 2024 Railbelt Energy Forum

November 20, 20245:30 pmAnchorage Museum - 625 C Street

In light of looming Cook Inlet natural gas shortfalls and several competing visions for how to meet Railbelt energy needs, it is important that we think critically about the choices ahead and align around a vision for our collective energy future. With that in mind, REAP was thrilled to host the final installment of its 2024 Fall Energy Speaker Series in-person at the Anchorage Museum on Wednesday, November 20. ...

[2024 Fall Energy Speaker Series] Knowledge is Power: Clean Energy Education for Alaska’s Youth

October 23, 2024Zoom

This understanding informs our Energy Education work and underscores the importance of promoting the various clean energy educational opportunities available across the state. That is why we are thrilled for the second installment in REAP’s 2024 Fall Energy Speaker Series to feature an in-depth conversation with three incredible educators who are doing the critical work of educating Alaska’s up-and-coming...