Indigenized Energy, a Native-led nonprofit devoted to advancing tribal vitality sovereignty, has accomplished its third collaborative photo voltaic undertaking with Freedom Forever. This partnership has a shared mission to convey clear vitality to Native communities.
Screenshot taken from “Good Power” documentary produced by Indigenized Power.
The most recent set up, a totally off-grid photo voltaic and battery system, now powers a distant buffalo caretaker website on the Northern Cheyenne Reservation in Montana, offering dependable, emissions-free electrical energy to a culturally important location with no entry to the ability grid.
This third photo voltaic deployment by Indigenized Power and Freedom Endlessly is preceded by earlier installations within the Northern Cheyenne Group and the Oglala Sioux and Chippewa Cree Reservations. Every undertaking is supposed to create long-term group profit, Indigenous self-determination and environmental stewardship.
“Our aim has at all times been to empower our communities with instruments that assist them thrive,” stated Cody Two Bears, founder and CEO of Indigenized Power. “Photo voltaic is extra than simply vitality — it’s sovereignty, it’s sustainability and it’s hope. These initiatives are serving to us restore Indigenous self-determination, one system at a time.
“Lots of the communities the place we work don’t have a neighborhood photo voltaic workforce or contractors,” Two Bears added. “They’re rural, distant, and sophisticated environments. Freedom Endlessly brings the horsepower to make these initiatives occur in locations the place the market alone wouldn’t go. That’s what makes this partnership so necessary.”
And the partnership continues to evolve. Along with new initiatives underway, the 2 organizations just lately co-produced a brief documentary, “Good Energy,” which tells the story of Tribal photo voltaic trainees, elders and communities coming collectively to reclaim vitality sovereignty and resilience. The movie celebrates clear vitality not simply as infrastructure, however as therapeutic.
With extra installations within the pipeline and a watch towards supporting the nationwide Photo voltaic for All program, Indigenized Power and Freedom Endlessly are constructing extra than simply photo voltaic methods.
“We’re proud to face alongside Indigenized Power and assist their mission to construct vitality sovereignty by way of actual, on-the-ground motion,” stated Brian Eglsaer, COO at Freedom Endlessly. “These initiatives aren’t simply photo voltaic installations — they’re highly effective steps towards long-term change for Tribal communities.”
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