WRAP Tribal Renewables - AWEA Presentation

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The WRAP Tribal Renewables Report and The WRAP
Tribal Efficiency Report
Tom Acker Associate Professor Mechanical
Engineering
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Outline

• NAU Team
• Chronology of tribal reports
• Tribal Renewables Report
• Tribal Efficiency Report
• The Next Steps

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Oversight WRAP AP2 Forum Tribal Interests
Working Group

• NAU Team

Tom Acker, Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Bill Auberle, Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Earl Duque, Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering John Eastwood, Lecturer, Economics
William Jeffery, Environmental Attorney
David LaRoche, Program Director, Center for Sustainable Environments, also, U.S. EPA Clean Air Act in Indian country
Virgil Masayesva, Director, Institute for Tribal Environmental Professionals Amanda Ormond, Principal, The Ormond Group
Dean Smith, Assoc Professor, Economics and Applied Indigenous Studies
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The Tribal Reports Chronology

• Tribal Renewables Report
• December 2000 Initiated
• May 2001 Draft
• April 2002 Final Draft (Under Review)
• Tribal Efficiency Report
• September 2001 Initiated
• June 2002 Preliminary Draft
• August 2002 Draft
• ICF Modeling of Impacts
• IPM, REMI ICF visit November 2001
• Overall Summary Report
• AP2 State Tribal Tellus July 2002

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Tribal Renewables Report

• Motivation for Renewable Energy (RE) development
• Recommendations to tribal leaders
• Resource for tribal staff
• Wind, Solar, Geothermal, Biomass, Low-impact Hydro

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Study Methodology

• Assessment of Tribal Energy Issues
• ITEP Assessment 14 tribes
• NAREEP Survey 27 tribes
• Extensive Literature Survey
• Tribal economic development, energy,
  opportunities, barriers
• Formulation of Potential Actions
  Recommendations
• Draft Report
• Policy and program recommendations
• Public review 17 solicited reviews

Yurok Tribe, CA Off-grid PV installation
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Important Findings

• Lack of energy infrastructure
• Organizational
• Physical
• Great interest in RE and Energy Efficiency (EE)
• RE development ? Economic development
• New electrification
• Energy independence, tribal sovereignty
• Cultural preservation
• State Actions ? less applicable

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RE Recommendations

• Two Classifications of Recommendations
• Options for Individual Tribal Implementation
• Options for Collaborative Implementation

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Options for Individual Tribal Implementation

• Develop a tribal energy policy
• Establish an energy authority
• Establish an independent tribal Economic
  Development Corporation
• Initiate energy training and education programs
• Expedite the permitting process for RE
• Develop a TIP that includes RE
• Develop RE resources to improve electric service
  and for economic development

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Options for Collaborative Implementation

• Develop inter-tribal energy collaborations
• Create partnerships with independent power
  producers
• Require federal facilities on tribal lands use
  some RE
• Request funding of existing statutes
• Expand federal Buy Indian program
• Support federal RPS and tax credits
• Equivalent tax credits
• Tribal SO2 emissions credits
• Explore state-tribal agreements

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Report Content

• WRAP/RHR Background
• Baseline Information
• What counts as RE
• RE info in a TIP
• Tribal Energy Issues and Perspectives
• RE Projects on NA Lands
• Tribal Energy Perspectives
• Analysis of Tribal RE Development

• Potential and Recommended Actions
• Appendices
• RHR Fact Sheet
• RE Systems and Resources
• RE Resource Maps
• Information Sources
• WRAP Tribes

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Opportunities for RE

• Abundance of Wind
• 60 reservations ? Class 5
• ICF modeling ? highest penetration of RE is wind
• Solar most tribes with a developable resource
• Biomass majority of tribes with a developable
  resource
• Geothermal about 20 reservations with a
  resource
• Resource Tables

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The Tribal Efficiency Report

• Motivation for Energy Efficiency (EE)
• Recommendations to tribal leaders
• Resource for tribal staff
• EE maximizing the efficient utilization of
  energy while minimizing the costs

Flathead Reservation, MT
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Study Methodology

• Build on Tribal RE research
• EE literature survey
• Case Studies
• Pasqua Yaqui in So. Arizona
• Yurok tribe in No. California
• Confederated Salish and Kootenai tribes in
  Montana
• Formulation of Potential Actions
  Recommendations
• Draft Report

Yurok Tribe, CA Off-grid PV installation
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Important Findings

• Lack of energy infrastructure
• Needed to implement EE program
• Great opportunity for EE
• Numerous older buildings
• Significant growth in electrical load expected
• EE ? can free significant financial resources for
  other uses
• State EE measures ? many are applicable

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Recommendations

• Three Classifications of Recommendations
• Tribal Sponsored Programs
• Collaborative Program Improvements in Tribal
  Energy Conservation
• Tribal Leadership Beyond Tribal Lands

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Tribal Sponsored Programs

• Adopt a Tribal Energy Plan
• Establish a Tribal Energy Authority
• Hire an Energy Manager
• Adopt Energy Efficient Building Codes
• Initiate education programs
• Create a TIP that includes EE

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Recommendations - continued

• Collaborative Programs
• Inter-tribal collaborations
• Require federal facilities employ EE
• Participate in federal programs
• Weatherization Assistance Program
• DOE Rebuild America
• Tribal Leadership
• Support Demand Side Management (DSM) progrmas
• Support national EE standards

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Report Content

• WRAP/RHR Background
• Baseline Information
• What is EE?
• Benefits and economic analysis
• Implementation of EE
• Case Study Results
• Potential EE programs
• Recommended Actions
• Appendices

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Opportunity for EE

• Easily obtainable
• 10 savings in electricity costs
• Possibly obtainable
• 50 savings in electricity costs

1997 data on energy consumption and expenditure
for major energy sources in Indian households
(EIA 2000)
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The Next Steps

• Seek funding for tribal energy staff
• Establish/develop tribal energy programs
• RE and EE training programs
• RE and EE Workshops and conferences with focus on
  tribal issues
• Tribal participation in federal and state
  legislative or regulatory processes pertaining to
  RE and EE
• Others

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Questions?
From 2002 Wind Powering America Calendar Photo
Credit Lloyd Herziger, Enron Wind/PIX10653
NREL Photo Library
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NREL Resource Maps

• Created for each WRAP State
• Tribal Boundaries, Transmission Lines
• Wind,Biomass, Solar PV, Concentrating Solar,
  Geothermal

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Resource Tables
New Mexico tribal lands and renewable energy
resources

• Developed from resource maps
• One table for each state in the WRAP region

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Specific EE Measures
Sectors residential, commercial/institutional,
industrial, policy Developed from programs
recommended for states.
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WRAP Region
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WRAP Membership
Tribal Pueblo of Acoma Campo Band of Kumeyaay Indians Cortina Indian Rancheria Hopi Tribe Hualapai Nation of the Grand Canyon Nez Perce Tribe Northern Cheyenne Tribe Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes Pueblo of San Felipe Shoshone-Bannock Tribes of Fort Hall State Alaska Arizona California Colorado Idaho Montana New Mexico North Dakota Oregon South Dakota Utah Washington Wyoming Federal U.S. Dept. of Agriculture U.S. Dept. of Interior U.S. EPA Staffed by Western Governors Association National Tribal Environmental Council
There are 237 Tribes in the WRAP region