REAP.

• Author: Anderson, Tasha
• Position: Inside Alaska Business February 2018

Governor Walker included $14 million for the Renewable Energy Fund in his proposed FY19 budget, released December 15, 2017. Of that total, $11 million is for grants to projects from the Renewable Energy Alaska Project's Round 9 solicitation.

The Renewable Energy Fund grant program has been the vehicle for nearly $260 million in state investment in renewable energy since it was created in 2008. Those state investments have leveraged more than $140 million in private and federal dollars and helped build more than seventy...