Renewable Energy for Tribal Community Development

August 21-25, 2006
Golden, Colorado

This workshop was aimed at tribal community leaders and tribal college instructors. One of the objectives of the course was to help tribal college instructors adopt energy as a topic and tie course work to the needs of the local tribal community.

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

• Course Overview (PDF 606 KB)

• The Global Picture and Tribal Energy Planning (PDF 2.8 MB)

• Energy and Food: Some Surprising Links (PDF 229 KB)

• Tribal Strategic Energy Planning: First Steps (PDF 153 KB)

• Demand-Side Options (PDF 3.0 MB)

• Resource Assessment (PDF 4.7 MB)

• Integrating Supply and Demand (PDF 96 KB)

• Self-Sufficient Community Development (PDF 50 KB)

Renewable Energy Technology Options

• Community Wind Power (PDF 1.2 MB)

• Solar Electric Fundamentals (PDF 3.8 MB)

• Solar Thermal Technology and Applications (PDF 1.7 MB)

• Biomass for Community Energy (PDF 3.5 MB)

• Geothermal Energy (PDF 1.0 MB)

• Hydropower (PDF 826 KB)

• Hybrid Power Systems (PDF 1.4 MB)