Business Development and Financing

The Tribal Energy Program has conducted four business-related training courses:

• Tribal Business Development & Financing Workshop (August 2011)
• Tribal Business Development & Project Financing Workshop (April 2009)
• Tribal Business Development & Project Financing Workshop (October 2007)
• Tribal Business Development Tutorial (May 2006)

Tribal Business Development and Project Financing Workshop

August 2011

Denver, Colorado

Planning and Good Governance: Keys to Successful Energy Projects

• Economic Development
  Payton Batliner

• Everybody Needs an Energy Plan
  Roger Taylor

• How to Get a Deal Done: A Developer's Perspective
  Sean Tufts

Community Scale vs. Utility Scale: The Organizational Challenge

• Tribal Business Formation—Legal and Structural Options
  Kathleen Niles

• Capturing Opportunities
  Doug MacCourt

• Community Development Financial Institutions
  Kellie Jewett

• Funding Strategies for Solar Thermal
  Mike Troge

• Tribal Energy Case Study: Paragon-Bisti Solar Energy Ranch

• Tribal Energy Case Study: Winnebago Tribe
  Kevin Connot

Tribal Utilities: A Structural Path to Energy Self-Sufficiency

• Tribal Utility Overview
  Chris Chark-Deschene

• Bureau of Indian Affairs Tribal Electric Utilities
  

• Aha Macav Power Service
  William Cyr

• Tohono O'odham Utility Authority
  Charles Wiese

• Umpqua Indian Utility Cooperative
  Brian Boswell

• Navajo Tribal Utility Authority
  Terry Battiest

• Ak-Chin Energy Services

• Gila River Indian Community Utility Authority
  Leonard Gold

• Yakama Power: Migraines of Tribal Utility Development
  Ray Weisman

• A Brief Overview of Western Area Power Administration
  Steve Tromly

• Tribal Utilities: A Bonneville Power Administration Perspective
  Nathan Dexter

Where's the Money? Federal Agency Programs and Commercial Financing

• Tribal Legislative Update
  Doug MacCourt

• Tribal Funding Opportunities: New Market Tax Credits
  and Tribal Bonds
  Tom Whitman

• Energy and Mineral Development Program
  Amanda John

• USDA Rural Development: Building Communities in Colorado from the Ground Up
  April Dahlager

• USDA Rural Development RUS Electric Programs
  John Rabaglia

• Financing Renewable Energy Projects
  James Hackstaff

• Where's the Money: Case Study—Northern Arapahoe
  Service Enterprise

Performance Contracting

• Energy Service Company Overview
  Jeff Dominick

• The Energy Performance Contract: What's In It?
  Tom Harris

Tribal Business Development and Project Financing Workshop

April 2009

Denver, Colorado

• Overview of the Tribal Energy Development Process

  Douglas MacCourt

• Overview of Tribal Business Structure Options, Including
  Joint Ventures

  Kathleen Nilles

• Legal Structures for Developing Tribal Energy Projects

  Douglas MacCourt

• Kumeyaay Wind Energy Project

  Mike Connolly

• Case Study: Northwestern Band of Shoshone Nation

  Mike Devine

• New Markets Tax Credits

  Phil Glynn

• Energy Service Companies (ESCOs)

  Dustin Knutson

Tribal Business Development and Project Financing Workshop

October 2007

Denver, Colorado

• Tribal Good Governance

  Jonathan Taylor

• Strategic Planning for Energy Development

  Roger Taylor

• Project Development Checklist and Power Purchase Agreements

  Scott Haase

• Tribal Business Structures

  Kathleen Nilles

• Tribal Energy Issues and the Federal Production Tax Credit

  Bob Gough

• Economic Analysis for Project Financing: Tools and Methods

  Jack Whittier

• Energy Service Companies

  Marty Skolnick and Doug Rothgeb

• Case Study: Kumeyaay Wind Energy Facility
  National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA)

  Lisa Northrop

• Case Study: Energy Program of the Colville Tribe

  Cody Miller

• Case Study: Ewiiaapaayp Wind Project

  William Micklin. Also: Ewiiaapaayp Wind Project

• Legal Issues for Tribal Energy Projects

  Douglas MacCourt

• USDA Funding Opportunities

  April Dahlager

• DOE's Tribal Energy Program

  Lizana Pierce

• National Renewable Energy Laboratory Overview

  Roger Taylor

• Sandia National Laboratories' Technical Assistance to Tribes

  Sandra Begay-Campbell

Tribal Business Development Tutorial

May 2006

Spokane, Washington

This one-day tutorial was presented by Leonard Greenhalgh, professor of management at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth University. He is the author of Managing Strategic Relationships: The Key to Business Success, The Free Press, 2001.

• Managing the Growth of the Business: A Key Step in Tribal Business Development

• Focusing Your Strategy for Tribal Business Development