Project Grant DEIE0000089

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Clean Energy Demonstrations (CFDA 81.255) program provides $14,081,785 to the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Tribe to deploy a 5 MW solar power and 8 MWh battery storage hybrid mini-grid system. The project aims to build energy resilience in the Tribe's Odanah and Birch Hill communities, which face frequent power outages due to extreme weather events along Lake Superior. The project supports the Tribe's goal of...

The Sokaogon Chippewa Community received a $189,410 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Indian Affairs under the Tribal Energy Development Capacity (TEDC) Grants program (CFDA 15.148). The grant will fund a solar feasibility study and related pre-development activities to assess the viability of deploying residential-serving solar technology and optimizing the tribe's energy distribution infrastructure. The study aims to improve the tribe's understanding of the...

The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Clean Energy Demonstrations program, under CFDA 81.255, awarded a $32 million Cooperative Agreement to Yakama Power on August 15, 2024. The project aims to install solar photovoltaic (PV) and micro-hydro systems on recently converted irrigation pipelines within the Yakama Reservation. The project objectives are to increase the Yakama Nation's renewable power supply, improve energy resilience and reliability, and support local economic development. As part of...

The Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) awarded a $3,118,054 Project Grant under the Renewable Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.087) to the Fond du Lac Reservation in Cloquet, Minnesota. The grant, awarded on August 1, 2024, supports the construction of a biomass heating system for the Brookston Community Center. The project aims to advance renewable energy technologies and improve the commercial viability of biomass solutions through...

The Department of Energy (DOE) awarded a $9,114,064 Cooperative Agreement under the Clean Energy Demonstrations (CFDA 81.255) program to Arizona State University (ASU) to help offset diesel-fueled generation with a solar and battery storage microgrid to serve Hopi Tribal community buildings. The project will bring workforce benefits to the Hopi Tribe by training community members to operate and maintain the microgrid system, which will be paid for through future power sales. This remote...

The Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community (SMSC) was awarded a $180,000 Project Grant from the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Indian Affairs Tribal Energy Development Capacity (TEDC) Grants program (CFDA 15.148). The grant will fund a feasibility study to explore the technical and economic viability of deploying a community-scale solar plus storage solution on SMSC's tribal lands in Scott County, Minnesota. The objectives of the study are to: 1) Assess the feasibility of a solar and...

The Muscogee (Creek) Nation (MCN) was awarded a $2,802,365 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Renewable Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.087) to install approximately 1-megawatt of ground-mounted solar photovoltaics at the Okemah Community Hospital in Okemah, Oklahoma. The project, which has an estimated completion date of June 30, 2028, is expected to offset approximately 29% of the hospital's annual electricity usage of over 5 million kilowatt-hours. By...

This Cooperative Agreement award, provided by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) under the Clean Energy Demonstrations (CFDA 81.255) program, aims to deploy high-penetration solar PV and battery storage systems into existing microgrids in eight remote tribal communities in Alaska. The $26,062,370 award, effective August 16, 2024 through December 30, 2030, will enable the project team, led by Dena Nena Henash (doing business as Tanana Chiefs Conference), to modernize grid infrastructure, provide...

This Project Grant award from the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Indian Affairs, under the Tribal Energy Development Capacity (TEDC) Grants program (CFDA 15.148), provides $234,000 to the Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin. The project, led by Jordan St Germaine, will establish a tribal utility entity for the Lac Courte Oreilles Reservation through a five-task effort. Key activities include forming a tribal utility board, conducting due diligence...

The Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) awarded a $1,372,744 Cooperative Agreement under the Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Information Dissemination, Outreach, Training and Technical Analysis/Assistance program (CFDA 81.117) to Red Cloud Renewable, a minority-owned, Native American-owned non-profit organization. The 36-month project aims to bridge gender inequality and racial disparities in the renewable energy sector by customizing an...