Business Development and Financing

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

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

The following documents are available as Adobe Acrobat PDFs. Download Adobe Reader.

Tribal Business Development and Project Financing Workshop

April 2009

Denver, Colorado

• Overview of the Tribal Energy Development Process

  Douglas MacCourt (PDF 442 KB)

• Overview of Tribal Business Structure Options, Including Joint Ventures

  Kathleen Nilles (PDF 270 KB)

• Legal Structures for Developing Tribal Energy Projects

  Douglas MacCourt (PDF 770 KB)

• Kumeyaay Wind Energy Project

  Mike Connolly (PDF 443 KB)

• Case Study: Northwestern Band of Shoshone Nation

  Mike Devine (PDF 4.1 MB)

• New Markets Tax Credits

  Phil Glynn (PDF 1.0 MB)

• Energy Service Companies (ESCOs)

  Dustin Knutson (PDF 12.7 MB)

Tribal Business Development and Project Financing Workshop

October 2007

Denver, Colorado

• Tribal Good Governance

  Jonathan Taylor (PDF 154 KB)

• Strategic Planning for Energy Development

  Roger Taylor (PDF 837 KB)

• Project Development Checklist and Power Purchase Agreements

  Scott Haase (PDF 1.7 MB)

• Tribal Business Structures

  Kathleen Nilles (PDF 106 KB)

• Tribal Energy Issues and the Federal Production Tax Credit

  Bob Gough (PDF 8.9 MB)

• Economic Analysis for Project Financing: Tools and Methods

  Jack Whittier (PDF 182 KB)

• Energy Service Companies

  Marty Skolnick and Doug Rothgeb (PDF 535 KB)

• Case Study: Kumeyaay Wind Energy Facility

  National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA)

  Lisa Northrop (PDF 3.7 MB)

• Case Study: Energy Program of the Colville Tribe

  Cody Miller (PDF 943 KB)

• Case Study: Ewiiaapaayp Wind Project

  William Micklin (PDF 626 KB and PDF 3.7 MB)

• Legal Issues for Tribal Energy Projects

  Douglas MacCourt (PDF 109 KB)

• USDA Funding Opportunities

  April Dahlager (PDF 2.2 MB)

• DOE's Tribal Energy Program

  Lizana Pierce (PDF 3.4 MB)

• National Renewable Energy Laboratory Overview

  Roger Taylor (PDF 4.8 MB)

• Sandia National Laboratories' Technical Assistance to Tribes

  Sandra Begay-Campbell (PDF 724 KB)

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 (PDF 180 KB)

• Focusing Your Strategy for Tribal Business Development (PDF 264 KB)