{"id":18913,"date":"2013-11-20T13:50:23","date_gmt":"2013-11-20T13:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ecowatch.com\/?p=312669"},"modified":"2013-11-20T13:50:23","modified_gmt":"2013-11-20T13:50:23","slug":"7-million-invested-in-clean-energy-on-tribal-lands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/7-million-invested-in-clean-energy-on-tribal-lands\/","title":{"rendered":"$7 Million Invested in Clean Energy on Tribal Lands"},"content":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/ecowatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/energy-150x150.jpeg\" alt=\"People from the Campo Environmental Protection Agency accompany START team members last year at a wind site assessment on the Campo Indian Reservation in San Diego County, CA. The Obama Administration announced this month that it will support tribal lands across the country under a similar initiative&mdash;The U.S. Department of Energy's Tribal Energy Program. Photo credit: Alexander Dane, National Renewable Energy Laboratory\"><\/p>\n<p>Efficient lighting systems, solar panels and job opportunities are coming to tribal lands across the country, along with funds to support them.<\/p>\n<p>The Obama&nbsp;Administration announced this month that it would fund&nbsp;nine <a href=\"http:\/\/ecowatch.com\/category\/renewable-business\/\" target=\"_blank\">clean energy<\/a> projects on&nbsp;tribal lands from New York to Arizona with $7 million through the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). The&nbsp;awards will help American Indian and Alaska Native tribes deploy <a href=\"http:\/\/apps1.eere.energy.gov\/tribalenergy\/projects_selected.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">projects<\/a> the department hopes will save the communities money in the long run, while enhancing energy security and creating jobs and new businesses.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;American Indian and Alaska Native tribes host a wide range of untapped energy resources that can help build a sustainable energy future for their local communities,&rdquo; U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz said in a <a href=\"http:\/\/energy.gov\/articles\/energy-department-invests-over-7-million-deploy-tribal-clean-energy-projects\" target=\"_blank\">statement<\/a>. &ldquo;Responsible development of these clean energy resources will help cut energy waste and fight the harmful effects of carbon pollution&mdash;strengthening energy security of Tribal nations throughout the country.&rdquo;<\/p>\n[caption id=\"attachment_312673\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"500\"]<a href=\"http:\/\/ecowatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/energy.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"People from the Campo Environmental Protection Agency accompany START team members last year at a wind site assessment on the Campo Indian Reservation in San Diego County, CA. The Obama Administration announced this month that it will support tribal lands across the country under a similar initiative&mdash;The U.S. Department of Energy's Tribal Energy Program. Photo credit: Alexander Dane, National Renewable Energy Laboratory\" src=\"http:\/\/ecowatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/energy.jpeg\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\"><\/a> People from the Campo Environmental Protection Agency accompany START team members last year at a wind site assessment on the Campo Indian Reservation in San Diego County, CA. The Obama Administration announced this month that it will support tribal lands across the country under a similar initiative&mdash;The U.S. Department of Energy&#8217;s Tribal Energy Program. Photo credit: Alexander Dane, National Renewable Energy Laboratory[\/caption]\n<p>American Indian land comprises 2 percent of the country&#8217;s land, but contains 5 percent of all U.S. renewable energy resources, according to the DOE&rsquo;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nrel.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">National Renewable Energy Laboratory<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The projects competitively selected to receive include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<strong>Coeur&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>d&#8217;Alene Tribe (Plummer, Idaho):<\/strong>&nbsp;The tribe will implement energy upgrades to refrigeration systems at its Benewah Market, helping to reduce energy consumption by about 30 percent.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<strong>Gwichyaa Zhee Gwich&rsquo;in Tribal Government (Fort Yukon, Alaska):<\/strong>&nbsp;The project will complete an energy efficiency retrofit to the tribe&rsquo;s main office building, including building shell upgrades and the installation of efficient lighting and a solar electric system. These efforts could help reduce fuel oil use by nearly 50 percent, representing about 2,300 gallons per year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<strong>Forest County Potawatomi Community (Milwaukee, Wis.):<\/strong>&nbsp;The tribe will install solar panels on eight tribal facilities, displacing between 25 to 70 percent of the total energy used by each of the buildings.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<strong>Menominee Tribal Enterprises (Neopit, Wis.):&nbsp;<\/strong>The tribe will install a biomass-fueled combined heat and power system to power the tribe&rsquo;s sawmill and lumber drying operation. The project will help cut fuel oil use by more than 80 percent each year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<strong>Seneca Nation of Indians (Irving, N.Y.):&nbsp;<\/strong>The tribe will install a 1.8 megawatt wind turbine near Lake Erie. The turbine is expected to generate about 50 percent of the electricity used on the entire reservation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<strong>Southern Ute Indian Tribe Growth Fund (Ignacio, Colo.):&nbsp;<\/strong>This project will help install an 800-kilowatt solar energy system to provide energy to multiple Southern Ute buildings. This solar system could replace nearly 40 percent of the total fuel used in these buildings.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<strong>Tonto Apache Tribe (Payson, Ariz.):&nbsp;<\/strong>The tribe will install solar arrays on three of the tribe&rsquo;s buildings that consume the most energy, which would help meet more than 60 percent of the buildings&rsquo; total electricity needs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<strong>White Earth Reservation Tribal Council (White Earth, Minn.):&nbsp;<\/strong>This project will replace more than 60 percent of the fuel oil and propane currently used to heat the facility with the&nbsp;installation of a woody biomass-fueled boiler.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<strong>Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska (Winnebago, Neb.):&nbsp;<\/strong>The tribe will install a solar energy system to help power the Winnebago police and fire building, providing about 30 percent of the building&rsquo;s energy use. The solar system will also serve as an emergency backup power generator.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The DOE&rsquo;s&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/apps1.eere.energy.gov\/tribalenergy\/\">Tribal Energy Program<\/a>&nbsp;has invested nearly $42 million in 175 tribal clean energy projects since 2002. In collaboration with the DOE&rsquo;s&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/energy.gov\/indianenergy\/office-indian-energy-policy-and-programs\">Office of Indian Energy Policy and Programs<\/a>, the Tribal Energy Program provides financial and technical assistance to tribes for the evaluation and development of renewable energy resources, implementation of energy efficiency initiatives and education and training.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Visit EcoWatch&rsquo;s&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/ecowatch.com\/category\/renewable-business\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>RENEWABLES<\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;page for more related news on this topic.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/oi.vresp.com\/?fid=00b11039e0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"topnewsbanner121\" src=\"http:\/\/ecowatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/topnewsbanner1211.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"120\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,57],"tags":[2892,12198,2913],"class_list":["post-18913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-green-building-posts","category-leed-news","tag-business","tag-featured-business","tag-renewables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18913\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}