Business Development and Energy Project Financing Workshops
Here are presentations from Tribal Energy Program workshops on business development and project financing by the following years:
2011
The following presentations are from a Tribal Business Development and Financing workshop held in August 2011 in Denver, Colorado.
Planning and Good Governance: Keys to Successful Energy Projects
- Economic Development
Payton Batliner, Office of Indian and Economic Development - Everybody Needs an Energy Plan
By Roger Taylor, National Renewable Energy Laboratory - How to Get a Deal Done: A Developer's Perspective
By Sean Tufts, RES Americas
Community Scale vs. Utility Scale: The Organizational Challenge
- Tribal Business Formation—Legal and Structural Options
By Kathleen Niles, Holland & Knight - Capturing Opportunities
By Doug MacCourt - Community Development Financial Institutions
By Kellie Jewett, Weesta - Funding Strategies for Solar Thermal
By Mike Troge, Oneida Tribe of Indians of Wisconsin - Tribal Energy Case Study: Paragon-Bisti Solar Energy Ranch
- Tribal Energy Case Study: Winnebago Tribe
By Kevin Connot, Winnebago Tribe
Tribal Utilities: A Structural Path to Energy Self-Sufficiency
- Tribal Utility Overview
By Chris Chark-Deschene - Bureau of Indian Affairs Tribal Electric Utilities
- Aha Macav Power Service
By William Cyr - Tohono O'odham Utility Authority
Bu Charles Wiese - Umpqua Indian Utility Cooperative
By 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
2009
The following presentations are from a Tribal Business Development and Project Financing workshop held in April 2009 in 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
2007
The following presentations are from a Tribal Business Development and Project Financing workshop held in October 2007 in 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
2006
These presentations are from a one-day tutorial in May 2006 in Spokane, Washington, presented by Leonard Greenhalgh. Greenhalgh is a 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.