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CURRENT STATUS
AEA is continuing to coordinate multi‐party technical assistance (TA) provided to
Community Energy Champions (CECs), the 64 communities that signed an energy efficiency
pledge in phase one of the Remote Alaska Communities Energy Efficiency (RACEE)
competition in winter 2016 and that now make up the RACEE Peer Network. A new
approach to TA has been submitted to the RACEE funders to continue TA in the seven
Phase III sites that did receive construction funding. This assistance will, in some cases,
include a site visit and installation of building monitoring systems. Monthly calls will be
scheduled with the building operator for at least one year to examine the buildings
operation and recommendation for improvement. This will produce energy data that can
be used for the final RACEE program report – did these communities meet the 15% by 2020
pledge made in Phase I? The final event for RACEE is expected to take place in 2020. This
event is intended to be a peer networking opportunity with a focus on exploring best
practices in the delivery of community‐scale energy efficiency in remote communities.
AEA received an $80,000 grant from USDA Rural Development to provide energy audits to
owners of non‐residential buildings in most of Alaska. AEA is currently accepting
applications from interested building owners; audits must be completed by Summer 2019.
AEA was recently awarded a grant from the Department of Energy to support Property
Assessed Clean Energy in commercial buildings (C‐PACE) efforts in Alaska. AEA continues to
provide technical support and stakeholder coordination in efforts to stand up a statewide
program in Alaska’s largest communities. While program planning slowed in 2018, AEA is
back in the driver’s seat and things are moving at a rapid place. In March the C‐PACE
Advisory Group met twice. A request for proposals will be released in late spring to survey
building owners and operators to better understand their needs from PACE. There is strong
support across the state to work together toward uniform program parameters and the
creation of a statewide administrator.
Each fall AEA participates and supports the power pledge challenge in middle school
science classrooms throughout Alaska. The objective is to teach students about energy
efficiency and conservation and encourage them to use energy wisely at home and school.
Participating classes will receive an interactive classroom visit on energy efficiency and
conservation by a Pledge Partner. Students who complete a simple online energy pledge
enter their class to win prize. In 2018, more than 3000 students in 128 classrooms were
reached. Planning for the 2019 program kicks off in April.
PROGRAM OVERVIEW
AEA’s Energy Efficiency and Conservation (EE&C) program is working to achieve the State’s
15 percent by 2020 energy efficiency goal through a variety of means. Initiatives include
the RACEE competition, C‐PACE implementation coordination and technical assistance, the
Village Energy Efficiency Program, Commercial Building Energy Audits, industrial audit
toolkit, statewide outreach, and technical assistance with regional and community level
energy efficiency planning and implementation. AEA also manages the State Energy
Program (SEP) federal funds for Alaska, sharing revenue 50/50 with the Alaska Housing
Finance Corporation (AHFC).
ONGOING PARTNERSHIPS
Stakeholder engagement is managed through the Alaska Energy Efficiency Partnership. The
Partnership has more than 70 member organizations and creates opportunity for
collaboration and synergy among statewide stakeholders.
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