The Renewable Energy Alaska Project (REAP) is working with rural communities throughout Alaska to provide reliable and more cost effective energy solutions.
is working with rural communities throughout Alaska to provide reliable and more cost effective energy solutions.
For a little over a year, the project members have been working to emphasize energy resilience and help the most remote areas adapt to changing conditions and recover from energy disruptions. Rural communities are broken down into micro-grids, which essentially means that unlike areas on an interconnected grid such as Anchorage, energy cannot be pulled from other providers if there is an outage in the community. Officials with the project say this places importance on the reliability of the generation in a community. Energy determines where people choose to live and REAP wants to make that possible for all rural Alaskans.
Sitka, Ouzinkie, Dillingham and Wainwright are the current communities receiving technical assistance through the project. Each area gets a unique type of assistance based off their geographical location. Across the board, project members say it means customers will end up paying less. The projects are expected to take 12 to 18 months to complete.
Developments are also in the works for urban areas throughout the Railbelt. Currently, 15% of renewable energy is being used in Alaska. Gov. Mike Dunleavy has proposed
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