100% Clean Energy by 2020
“In our Every Deliberation, We Must Consider the Impact of Our Decisions on the next Seven Generations”. From the Great Law of the Iroquois Nation.
Taos Pueblo is a federally recognized tribe located in Taos County, New Mexico. The place hosts Taos Pueblo settlement, the only living Native American community designated both a World Heritage Site by UNESCO and a National Historic Landmark.
Taos Pueblo Renewable Energy Feasibility Study
The scope of the study included all renewable energy resources; biomass, both as electric/heating energy and as transportation fuel, geothermal, hydroelectric, solar and wind. After these renewable resources on lands at Taos Pueblo were quantified, then technologies, loads and power sale potential were studied to determine opportunities where electric energy, heat and transportation fuels could be produced and utilized. These opportunities were then screened by analysis and guidance of what would be culturally acceptable as well as economically viable.
Community Solar
Community Solar is a way to purchase clean solar energy and reduce the electricity bill without having solar panels on the roof or yard.A Community Solar array has a large number of solar panels. Customers of a local utility like Kit Carson can buy one or more panels. Then the value of the electricity generated by those panels is deducted from their electricity bills each month. It’s a formula that reduces monthly bills at the same time that it reduces the emissions that are polluting our atmosphere and causing global warming.
Links:
Energy sovereignty. Taos Pueblo fires up county’s first biomass heating system.
Taos Pueblo Renewable Energy Feasibility Study PDF
Renewable Taos - Local Energy and a Strong Economy
Joint Resolution on Renewable Energy updated 2014 Feb 9
Taos Pueblo World Heritage Site © Edmondo Gnerre. UNESCO/WHC.
