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People also need the better employment prospects of wind power. Centralized power plants can not create the significant benefits to local employment levels provided by de-centralized wind power generation.
Preparing tribal colleges to offer the education and training needed to realize these local economic benefits is another part of the solution, and COUP is working to build this capacity.
Dependence on non-renewable energy sources creates a host of substantially negative human and
environmental impacts on our country. Burning coal has been our primary energy solution since we started
mining it over 200 years ago.
Today we understand how to do better for our country, our children and our land.. and now is the time to get it done.
Preparing tribal colleges to offer the education and training needed to realize these local economic benefits is another part of the solution, and COUP is working to build this capacity.
Dependence on non-renewable energy sources creates a host of substantially negative human and
environmental impacts on our country. Burning coal has been our primary energy solution since we started
mining it over 200 years ago.
Today we understand how to do better for our country, our children and our land.. and now is the time to get it done.
Natural forces, geography and demographics have placed this vast windshed before the path of over a
hundred million northeastern residents. Their need for sustainable energy solution that does not damage
the health of their watersheds, forests, and the very air they breathe could not be more clear.
COUP's goal of building out the wind power potential of the Great Plains will also help us protect the West's
ever more scarce water resources from being depleted and degraded in the process of mining and burning
millions of tons of coal every year.
Increasing our nation's supply of wind power will directly reduce the carbon load on the atmosphere, nitric
and sulfuric acids poisoning our forests and lakes, human health damage to respiratory systems, and
genetic damage to future generations from accumulations of mercury.
hundred million northeastern residents. Their need for sustainable energy solution that does not damage
the health of their watersheds, forests, and the very air they breathe could not be more clear.
COUP's goal of building out the wind power potential of the Great Plains will also help us protect the West's
ever more scarce water resources from being depleted and degraded in the process of mining and burning
millions of tons of coal every year.
Increasing our nation's supply of wind power will directly reduce the carbon load on the atmosphere, nitric
and sulfuric acids poisoning our forests and lakes, human health damage to respiratory systems, and
genetic damage to future generations from accumulations of mercury.
Potential
Wind Power
Generation
from
Tribal Lands
in the
continenal
United States
Wind Power
Generation
from
Tribal Lands
in the
continenal
United States
Intertribal COUP was formed in 1994 to provide a forum for utility issues discussion from regulatory and economic perspectives. The Intertribal COUP Council has representatives from ten Tribes located in a three-state area in the Northern Plains: South Dakota, North Dakota, and Nebraska. The Tribes include the Cheyenne River; Flandreau Santee; Lower Brule; Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara; Omaha; Rosebud; Sisseton; Spirit Lake; Pine Ridge and the Standing Rock Sioux Tribes. The Cheyenne River Sioux Tribal Telephone Authority is also a member.
We provide policy analysis and recommendations, as well as workshops on telecommunications, climate change research, Western Area Power Administration (WAPA) hydropower allocations, energy efficiency, energy planning, and renewable energy, with a heavy emphasis on wind energy development.
We provide policy analysis and recommendations, as well as workshops on telecommunications, climate change research, Western Area Power Administration (WAPA) hydropower allocations, energy efficiency, energy planning, and renewable energy, with a heavy emphasis on wind energy development.
Intertribal Council On Utility Policy Mission Statement
Our
Mission
Mission
National Electricity Demand
and
Wind Market Drivers
and
Wind Market Drivers
National Energy Security
Declining Technology Costs
Conventional Fuel Price Uncertainties
(Natural Gas, Hydropower, Oil and Coal)
Demand for "Sustainable Power"
Federal, State and Tribal Support Policies:
Production Tax Credits
Renewable Energy Production Incentives
Renewables Portfolio Standards
Local Economic Development
Meeting Local Needs
Tribal Renewables: Clean, Untapped, Inexhaustable and Economically Competitive
American Indian Tribes have tremendous untapped energy potential in reservation wind resources
Tribal Lands are interconnected to Federal power grids for off-reservation supply
Requirements for Federal and State Renewable Portfolio Standards (RPS) can be met through Tribal wind power production
Tribal Lands are interconnected to Federal power grids for off-reservation supply
Requirements for Federal and State Renewable Portfolio Standards (RPS) can be met through Tribal wind power production
Current Western drought and
precipitation shifts are consistent with climate scenarios associated with increased levels of carbon
dioxide from regional coal fired power plants.
Current shifts may be the
new "normal."
precipitation shifts are consistent with climate scenarios associated with increased levels of carbon
dioxide from regional coal fired power plants.
Current shifts may be the
new "normal."
Tribal Colleges are ideally placed to harvest wind power
A Choice: In this decade., the Northeastern U.S. can have the downwind fossil fuels emissions of at least..
..or, we could quite practically develop thousands of MegaWatts of clean, renewable wind power on Tribal Lands.
