Brief Description: The energy sector represents an area of significant infrastructural need on tribal and Native lands, provides tremendous current opportunities for significant funding, and offers fertile ground for new partnerships with non-Native entities and governments. This session will bring together the foundational elements of plan development and implementation with the goal of making the audience aware of the current landscape and opportunities in energy for Native communities. We want to describe how even Native communities that are new to energy can & should enter this space and access resources, including who they should consider partnering with.
The session will feature a panel of energy experts, each of whom will highlight concrete examples of how tribes and Native communities have implemented energy-related projects and developed new partnerships in the energy space as part of their community economic development plans and strategies. As always, Q+A opportunities will be built into the session.