Native Learning Center
6363 Taft Street, Hollywood, FL 33024
This hybrid onsite and virtual conference will focus on the newly changing landscape for tribal energy development and sustainability, including best practices, federal leadership, policy and regulatory changes, project funding, and project planning/development trends. The conference will give tribes and First Nations an opportunity to explore the range of renewable energy and sustainability opportunities that exist and how to start the process.
Representatives from tribes, First Nations, nongovernmental organizations, and private industry will give presentations and provide training on a wide range of topics, including:
- Resources to help with tribal energy projects
- Achieving self-sufficiency through energy planning and resource development
- Energy saving methods in design, development, and construction
- Tribes undertaking large-scale energy projects
- Developments driving change in the renewable energy and sustainability marketplace
- Tribal/private partnership opportunities
- Tribal case studies and lessons learned
- Funding sources for projects
- Leveraging available federal resources and materials to support tribes and tribally designated housing entities/housing departments.