Hello from Alpine, CA and LPO’s latest financial closing: the Viejas Microgrid Tribal Energy project! (Energy.gov/LPO/Viejas)
Director Jigar Shah and members of LPO’s Tribal Energy Financing and Community Jobs & Justice teams joined leadership from the Viejas Band of Kumeyaay Indians and other key stakeholders for a community impact tour, roundtable, and site visit this week ahead of today’s announcement of the closing of a $72.8 million loan guarantee to finance the development of a solar-plus-long-duration-energy-storage microgrid. Participants discussed the deal, what it means for Viejas, and how to build Tribal energy sovereignty throughout Indian Country.
As the Viejas Microgrid project demonstrates, solar-plus-storage and microgrid projects for high-load facilities are great candidates for LPO Tribal Energy financing, and LPO is specifically reaching out to Tribes to help them learn how to leverage this financing. While LPO also consults on a diverse array of energy projects with potential Tribal energy financing applicants and stakeholders, this specialized outreach initiative is designed to help more Tribes learn about and build on the approach of projects like Viejas Microgrid.
See LPO’s related blog piece to explore use cases, learn more about the Tribal Energy Financing program, and submit a pre-application consultation request: https://lnkd.in/gUH8yedY
LEARN MORE:
• LPO’s Viejas Microgrid Project Page: Energy.gov/LPO/Viejas
• Read the full Viejas Microgrid project U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) financial close announcement: https://lnkd.in/gdPSVH3s
• An overview of LPO’s Tribal Energy Financing program: Energy.gov/LPO/Tribal
• For details & use cases about how LPO can support Tribal resiliency via solar-plus-storage & microgrid project financing for high-load facilities, see: https://lnkd.in/gUH8yedY
• Explore LPO’s full portfolio of projects: Energy.gov/LPO/Projects
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