NREL Conduit Blog

Eriq Acosta, a Spark Northwest project manager, answered the following questions about being an ETIPP regional partner.

At any given time, Kauai typically has about 20,000 to 30,000 visitors—about one for every three residents—on the island.

Situated at the northwestern tip of Washington’s Olympic Peninsula, the Makah Tribe frequently experiences power outages that last from multiple hours to several days.

Aquinnah and Chilmark are two towns on the island of Martha’s Vineyard off the coast of Massachusetts.

Like many utilities, Guam Power Authority's (GPA’s) challenge is to balance affordability, reliability, resilience, modernization, and security in a transitioning energy landscape.

Tribal land holds more that 5% of the solar photovoltaic potential in the United States, according to a 2013 report by NREL.

Cohoes is a small working-class community in upstate New York operating with a small staff and limited resources, but their lack of energy-related expertise did not prevent them from pursuing cleaner and more cost-effective energy solutions through the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Clean Energy to Communities (C2C) program.

In early December 2022, a snowstorm hit Fairbanks, Alaska, blanketing the city of around 32,000 people in six inches of snow and dumping even more on the surrounding hillsides.

NREL has developed several new resources for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Weatherization Assistance Program (WAP).

In this blog, meet Kevin McCabe, a clean energy researcher who serves as the lead for NREL’s Tribal energy activities.