Full Title: Snapshot: The Home Energy Rebate Program
Author(s): Scott Goldsmith, Sohrab Pathan, and Nathan Wiltse
Publisher(s): University of Alaska Anchorage
Publication Date: May 1, 2012
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Description (excerpt):
Alaska’s state government has spent an estimated $110 million since 2008 for better insulation, new furnaces, and other retrofits for roughly 16,500 homeowners—10% of all homeowners statewide. That spending was under the Home Energy Rebate Program, which rebates homeowners part of what they spend to make their houses more energy-efficient and less expensive to heat.2
The state legislature established the current program in 2008, as energy prices were spiking. The Alaska Housing Finance Corporation (AHFC) administers it, and the Institute of Social and Economic Research and the Cold Climate Housing Research Center did this analy- sis for AHFC, assessing the broad program effects from April 2008 through September 2011.