In July of 2016, historic floods inundated the lands of the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa in Wisconsin and left the tribe without power and without critical services. In May of 2021, the Band flipped the switch on a 500-kilowatt solar array paired with more than 1,000 kilowatt-hours of battery storage. This microgrid starts their journey toward resilience and energy sovereignty.
In this Clean Energy Group webinar, learn how the Band assembled the team necessary to successfully navigate the federal Department of Energy grant process, overcame obstacles created by COVID-19, and built the Ishkonige Nawadide Solar Microgrid Project (“It catches fire” in the Ojibwe Anishinaabemowin language). The microgrid was designed to withstand disasters worse than the floods in 2016, and it provides critical power to the wastewater treatment plant, the Health and Wellness Center, and an Administration Building. The Ishkonige Nawadide Project is Phase I of the Band’s path to complete resilience and energy sovereignty.
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This webinar is a presentation of Clean Energy Group’s Resilient Power Project. For more information, please visit www.resilient-power.org.
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