{"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":"PR from Sandia National Laboratories News 13 December 2005,\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/features\/doe\/2005-12\/dnl-ldt121305.php\">\nLight-bringer Debby Tewa provides advice about solar power to people on Indian reservations:\nMost lived without electricity like Tewa did growing up<\/a>\n<blockquote>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sandia.gov\/news-center\/news-releases\/2005\/renew-energy-batt\/tewa.html\">\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>\nDebby Tewa spent her first 10 years living without electricity, water,\nor a telephone in a three-room stone house in an isolated area of the\nHopi Reservation in Arizona.\n<p>\nToday, as a contractor to the Sandia National Laboratories Sandia\nTribal Energy Program, she provides technical advice about maintaining\nphotovoltaic (PV) units to people on Indian reservations who live remotely\nlike she did. For many, it\u2019s the first time they\u2019ve had electricity\nin their homes.\n<p>\n\u201cI can identify with the people I\u2019m helping,\u201d Tewa says. \u201cMany\nlive the way I grew up, and I fully appreciate their excitement in having\nelectricity and light at night.\u201d\n<p>\nAs part of Tewa\u2019s job, she and program director\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<!--more-->\n<blockquote>\nSandra Begay-Campbell\noffer technical advice to tribal governments, which receive Department\nof Energy (DOE) tribal energy grants. Her work also includes teaching\nNative Americans how to use and maintain photovoltaic units, supporting\nproject management plans, and helping people learn from each other about\ntheir photovoltaic systems. In addition, she is enhancing DOE\u2019s PV\nReliability database with off-grid system information that includes\nNavajo PV systems maintenance data.\n<p>\nTewa and Begay-Campbell work closely with the Navajo Nation with which\nSandia signed a memorandum of understanding in 2000 to encourage further\ncollaboration. The Navajo Utility Authority, through DOE funding, has\ninstalled photovoltaic units at more than 300 homes on the reservation\nsince 1993.\n<\/blockquote>\nThis would be the same Navajo nation that has\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.abqtrib.com\/news\/2007\/oct\/24\/navajos-spurn-uranium-mining\/\">\nbanned uranium mining on their reservation.<\/a>\nThey think solar is cleaner.\n<p>\n-jsq\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"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;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"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"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p585fK-xc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_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}]}}