Events / Alaska Specific / Energy Efficiency / Renewable Energy / Rural Alaska

[2026 Fall Energy Speaker Series] Alaska’s Microgrid Innovators: How Communities Are Responding to Today’s Energy Challenges

October 21, 202612:00 pmZoom

In her 2016 self-published book, A Different Arctic Paradigm: Searching for Energy in the Far North, Gwen Holdmann opened with a question: “Well over a million people in the Arctic live in communities and locations where electric grids or pipelines do not reach. So what is...

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Events / Alaska Specific / Energy Policy / Governance and Planning / Railbelt

[2026 Fall Energy Speaker Series] Uniting Alaska’s Largest Grid: Exploring Unified Economic Dispatch (Pt. 2)

October 7, 202612:00 pmZoom

In the face of rising energy costs, more and more Alaskans are talking about the need to bring the Railbelt utilities together and more efficiently operate the grid that serves nearly 75% of the state’s residents. As part of our 2026 Spring Energy Speaker Series, REAP...

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Events / Alaska Specific / Energy Policy / Governance and Planning / Railbelt

[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...

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