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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...
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In partnership with the Denali Commission, REAP’s Alaska Network for Energy Education and Employment (ANEEE) hosts the Alaska Energy Training Group to facilitate coordination and communication between the multiple training, technical assistance and workforce...
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Heat pump projects are growing rapidly throughout Alaska, with incentives in the form of tax credits and upcoming rebates through Alaska Housing Finance Corporation (AHFC) and grant programs set to help install over 7,000 heat pumps throughout coastal communities and the...
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This spring, REAP’s Alaska Network for Energy Education and Employment developed and taught a new energy career visibility and readiness course for a cohort of 11th graders from the Lower Yukon School District. The Powering Your Future course built on a yearslong partnership...
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Training coordination program People in Power (PIP) has been hard at work this spring. The initiative, funded by the Denali Commission, the Department of Energy’s Arctic Energy Office, and the Rural Alaska Community Action Program and executed by REAP, improves performance...
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A newly funded hydropower project 40 years in the making aims to bring energy security and resilience to Angoon. Regional partnerships, including a winter career fair, are empowering youth to play a central role in the community’s energy future.
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Solar power is an often overlooked option in Alaska due to the state’s long, dark winters. But a growing number of developers, electricians and engineers are expanding Alaska’s solar generation to take advantage of its sunny springs and summers. New tax credits for...
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The Alaska Network for Energy Education and Employment regularly partners with Kusilvak Career Academy to promote clean energy career pathways to students from the Lower Yukon School District. Our recent energy efficiency day at KCA not only taught students about how to...
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Kotzebue student and aspiring video game developer Kiana Norton is laying the foundation for an immersive video game that illuminates the challenges of maintaining and operating a clean energy microgrid in rural Alaska.
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People in Power (PIP) is a partnership between the U.S. Department of Energy’s Arctic Energy Office, Denali Commission and REAP that works to improve performance at small, independent electric utilities in rural Alaska through targeted staff training. Independent...
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…starting a business in a region larger than France, Spain, Germany and Italy combined, but with only .03% of their combined population. Now imagine that twenty percent of this very small population is off the road system, that broadband is limited, that energy costs are...
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