{"id":2058,"date":"2011-05-09T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-09T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/05\/solar-as-electricity-for-remote-people.html"},"modified":"2011-05-09T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-09T12:00:00","slug":"solar-as-electricity-for-remote-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/05\/solar-as-electricity-for-remote-people.html","title":{"rendered":"Solar as electricity for remote people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PR from Sandia National Laboratories News 13 December 2005,<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/features\/doe\/2005-12\/dnl-ldt121305.php\"><br \/>\nLight-bringer Debby Tewa provides advice about solar power to people on Indian reservations:<br \/>\nMost lived without electricity like Tewa did growing up<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sandia.gov\/news-center\/news-releases\/2005\/renew-energy-batt\/tewa.html\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   src=\"http:\/\/www.sandia.gov\/news-center\/news-releases\/2005\/images\/debby-tewa_nr.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\nDebby Tewa spent her first 10 years living without electricity, water,<br \/>\nor a telephone in a three-room stone house in an isolated area of the<br \/>\nHopi Reservation in Arizona.<\/p>\n<p>\nToday, as a contractor to the Sandia National Laboratories Sandia<br \/>\nTribal Energy Program, she provides technical advice about maintaining<br \/>\nphotovoltaic (PV) units to people on Indian reservations who live remotely<br \/>\nlike she did. For many, it\u2019s the first time they\u2019ve had electricity<br \/>\nin their homes.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cI can identify with the people I\u2019m helping,\u201d Tewa says. \u201cMany<br \/>\nlive the way I grew up, and I fully appreciate their excitement in having<br \/>\nelectricity and light at night.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nAs part of Tewa\u2019s job, she and program director\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nSandra Begay-Campbell<br \/>\noffer technical advice to tribal governments, which receive Department<br \/>\nof Energy (DOE) tribal energy grants. Her work also includes teaching<br \/>\nNative Americans how to use and maintain photovoltaic units, supporting<br \/>\nproject management plans, and helping people learn from each other about<br \/>\ntheir photovoltaic systems. In addition, she is enhancing DOE\u2019s PV<br \/>\nReliability database with off-grid system information that includes<br \/>\nNavajo PV systems maintenance data.<\/p>\n<p>\nTewa and Begay-Campbell work closely with the Navajo Nation with which<br \/>\nSandia signed a memorandum of understanding in 2000 to encourage further<br \/>\ncollaboration. The Navajo Utility Authority, through DOE funding, has<br \/>\ninstalled photovoltaic units at more than 300 homes on the reservation<br \/>\nsince 1993.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This would be the same Navajo nation that has<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.abqtrib.com\/news\/2007\/oct\/24\/navajos-spurn-uranium-mining\/\"><br \/>\nbanned uranium mining on their reservation.<\/a><br \/>\nThey think solar is cleaner.<\/p>\n<p>\n-jsq<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PR from Sandia National Laboratories News 13 December 2005, Light-bringer Debby Tewa provides advice about solar power to people on Indian reservations: Most lived without electricity like Tewa did growing up Debby Tewa spent her first 10 years living without electricity, water, or a telephone in a three-room stone house in an isolated area of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97,40,14,1292,24],"tags":[8704,8705,1624,8706,839,1879,432,8714,2117],"class_list":["post-2058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-community","category-economy","category-indigenous","category-solar","tag-economy","tag-education","tag-energy","tag-environment","tag-poverty","tag-power","tag-renewable","tag-solar","tag-sustainable"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2058\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}