As the Energy Director for the Blue Lake Rancheria, Jana has helped establish the Tribe’s energy strategy, and has implemented a wide array of renewable energy assets and energy efficiency upgrades to reduce the Tribe’s carbon footprint, reduce retail costs of energy, increase climate resiliency, and fight climate change. She has developed projects in energy efficiency, renewable energy, green fuels, and community resiliency, including biomass, biodiesel, electric vehicle infrastructure, and her latest project is a combination of distributed generation solar, grid battery storage, and microgrid control system to demonstrate a low carbon microgrid for critical facilities. Jana currently serves on the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Indian Energy, Indian Country Energy and Infrastructure Working Group (ICEIWG). In 2014 she spearheaded the Tribe’s entry in the White House Climate Action Champions competition, and in December 2014 the Blue Lake Rancheria became one of 16 U.S. communities selected for its leadership on climate change.
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