Council of Energy Resource Tribes

Reports and Audits

Conference Report-Fort Mojave

Fort Mojave Utility Conference Report
The Fort Mojave Indian Tribe and Tribal Utility Aha Macav Power Service (AMPS) hosted and sponsored Developing Utility Ability conference March 13 & 14 at Avi Resort and Casino in Laughlin, Nevada. The two-day conference with presentations and field trips, ranging from the basics of utility formation to more sophisticated energy management technologies, helped to break down the complex components of utility formation. Approximately 23 Tribes were represented, all praising AMPS for the great lessons they took home.

Energy Audits

Fort Mojave Energy Audit
This document is a report on observations by a four-person team representing the Council of Energy Resource Tribes who spent four and a half days on the Fort Mojave Indian Reservation at the end of August and beginning of September 2005. It is based on interviews with a number of people, walk-throughs and, in most cases, instrumented inspections of ten buildings, and subsequent analysis of data gathered during field observations. The report includes sections on each building (or set of buildings) observed, highlighting key findings at the beginning of each section.

Pawnee Energy Audit
This document is a report on observations by a six-person team representing the Council of Energy Resource Tribes who spent three days on or near Pawnee lands between October 16 and 19, 2005. It is based on interviews with a number of people, instrumented inspections of five buildings, and subsequent analysis of data gathered during field observations. The report includes sections on each building (or set of buildings) observed, highlighting key findings at the beginning of each section.

Osage Energy Audit
This document is a report on observations by a six-person team representing the Council of Energy Resource Tribes who spent three days on Osage Nation lands between October 19 and 22, 2005. It is based on interviews with a number of people, instrumented inspections of four buildings, and subsequent analysis of data gathered during field observations. The report includes sections on each building observed, highlighting key findings at the beginning of each section.

Rosebud Sioux Energy Audit
This document is a report on observations by a six-person team representing the Council of Energy Resource Tribes who spent three days on Sicangu Lakota Oyate lands between October 30 and November 2, 2005. It is based on interviews with a number of people, instrumented inspections of five buildings, and subsequent analysis of data gathered during field observations. The report includes sections on each building (or set of buildings) observed, highlighting key findings at the beginning of each section.

Umatilla Energy Audit
This report was prepared as part of a study of the energy-related circumstances of a sample of buildings of the Umatilla Indian Reservation in Pendleton, Oregon. On-site inspections were accomplished on February 1-3, 2005 by a four-person team of researchers representing the Synertech Systems Corporation (Gary Cler, Wyncia Clute, and Larry Kinney) and the Council of Energy Resource Tribes (Roger Fragua).

Laguna Energy Audit
This document is a report on observations by a six-person team representing the Council of Energy Resource Tribes who spent two days at the Pueblo in the fourth week of February 2005. It is based on interviews with a number of people, walk-through and, in most cases, instrumented inspections of seven buildings, and subsequent analysis of the observations and the data gathered. The report includes sections on each building (or set of buildings) observed, highlighting key findings at the beginning of each section.

Ohkay Owingeh Energy Audit
This document is a report on the observations from the Council of Energy Resource Tribes who conducted energy audits at Ohkay Owingeh.

Assessing Rights-of-Way on Tribal Lands
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