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Builders’ Model Home Displays Energy Trends

Businessweek, January 6:

“...[A]rchitects and builders are busy trying to figure out how to put some of the same design features into new homes. Such trends are worth noting: Having amenities that appeal to buyers a decade or more after your house is built will help it hold its value…”

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Geophysical Institute (GI)

At the GI, the diversity of our research focus is reflected by our disciplinary-based, functional groupings of faculty and research staff. These divisions are: space physics and aeronomy, atmospheric sciences, snow, ice, and permafrost, seismology, volcanology, and tectonics and sedimentation. Along with an ubiquitous, cross-discipline remote sensing group, these research divisions reflect the range and diversity of the active scientific research projects which reach from the center of the sun to the center of the earth and beyond. Our 60 faculty, together with approximately 80 graduate students and associated undergraduates carry out research projects at high latitudes relating to our location within the Arctic.

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Institute for Northern Engineering (INE)

The Institute of Northern Engineering (INE) provides research and engineering solutions for the world’s cold regions and beyond. INE conducts research in all areas of engineering, including, but not limited to: civil and environmental, petroleum, mining, geological, electrical, computer, and mechanical engineering. INE fosters opportunities for faculty, post-doctoral researchers, and students to tackle these engineering challenges. INE focuses on basic and applied research and development, as well as research outreach.

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Cooperative Extension Service

As the state’s gateway to its university system, Extension serves some 60,000 Alaskans annually, providing a link between Alaska’s diverse people and communities by interpreting and extending relevant university, research-based knowledge in an understandable and usable form to the public.

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Alaska Center for Energy and Power

The Alaska Center for Energy and Power (ACEP) based at the University of Alaska is dedicated to applied energy research and testing focused on lowering the cost of energy throughout Alaska and developing economic opportunities for the State, its residents, and its industries.

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Interior Alaska Green Star

Our goal is to capture a larger percentage of Interior Alaska’s electronic waste before it hits the landfill, because 95% of the material in items like the computers is recoverable. In our first year we collected 7 tons of electronics and last year we collected a total of 25.4 tons of electronic waste.

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Alaska Housing Finance Corporation

The Alaska Housing Finance Corporation (AHFC) manages a variety of programs designed to improve the quality of all housing throughout Alaska. Long involved with weatherization and energy-efficiency grants, studies and programs, AHFC is now carrying out research projects with the Cold Climate Housing Research Center that have practical significance for every Alaskan.

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State Lawmakers Concerned Renewable Plan Excessive

Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, January 28:

“A document submitted as a state energy plan falls short of its mark, while renewable energy projects submitted for funding might go too far, legislators said…”

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Alaska Energy Plan Published

The State of Alaska has published its proposal for grant allocation from the Alaska Renewable Energy Fund. This money will fund the construction of a wide range of alternative energy projects throughout the state. The total proposed expenditure from the State of Alaska is $100 million, with a federal match of approximately $300 million.

See link to download report and read more.

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Alaska Center for Energy and Power to Get New Building

Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, January 28:

“Education leaders look to be sharpening their focus on energy research, a move spearheaded by tentative plans to build a 31,000-square-foot building dedicated to energy research — everything from wind and hydrogen to coal — at the University of Alaska Fairbanks…”

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UAF Professor Works on Electric Cars in Bristol Bay

Bristol Bay Times, January 22:

“Cars with electric motors may be a solution to the challenge of high gasoline costs in rural Alaska. If tests prove successful, for relatively low cost, a community could convert junked, gas-powered cars into commuter vehicles that run on electricity…”

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Wind Energy in Nome

Anchorage Daily News, January 25:

“An 18-turbine wind farm in the Snake River Valley has begun producing 10 percent of the energy needs in Nome. It is the first step toward more self-sufficiency, says Neal Foster, president of Banner Wind LLC…”

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Homer Tribune Considers Hydroelectric Plan

Home Tribune, January 21:

“The first in a series of stories examining possible Homer Electric Association hydroelectric projects near Moose Pass…”

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Future of Gas Pipeline In Doubt. Again.

KTUU, January 24:

“Is a future for Alaska’s natural gas pipeline already in trouble? A top energy market analyst says it could be since the global economic crisis has slashed demand for natural gas…”

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What to Do With $1 Billion in Possible Funding

Anchorage Daily News, January 26:

“Ever since the discussions began about an $825 billion economic stimulus package being pushed as the Obama administration’s first and main priority, Alaska has had its eye on what the state could get from the proposal…”

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