Creating an Inter-Tribal Technical Assistance Network in the Northwest Arctic

• Published in: Remote Sensing
• Main Author: Adams, Sonny
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2023
• Subjects: 29 ENERGY PLANNING; POLICY; AND ECONOMY; Arctic; Indian
• Online Access: http://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1882665; https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1882665; https://doi.org/10.2172/1882665

The US Department of Energy-Office of Indian Energy's (DOE-IE) support for NANA's establishment of an Inter-Tribal Assistance Network in the Northwest Arctic was a ground-breaking effort that led to many individual community successes and a regional escalation of clean energy for our tribes. Before this grant award was initiated, high penetration renewable-diesel hybrid systems were primarily aspirational. Now, after five years of intensive technical assistance and multi-institution collaboration and funding, the NANA Region has three high penetration solar-wind-battery-diesel hybrid systems and one solar-battery-diesel hybrid system fully operational with diesel-off operation occurring regularly; another solar-battery-diesel hybrid system fully funded with an RFP for construction targeted for 2023; a current grant application that was awarded to begin the final design process for solar-battery-diesel hybrid systems for four other villages in the region; and initial funding to begin a high penetration wind-battery-diesel system for the remaining village in the region. Clearly, our goal to demonstrate and replicate high penetration renewable hybrid technology has been accomplished and is increasing in scale and pace.