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Utility-Scale Wind at the Rosebud Sioux Indian Reservation

The Rosebud Sioux Tribe installed a 750-kilowatt wind turbine on its reservation on February 27, 2003, completing a project that began with wind resource monitoring in 1995. With half of the project funded by a DOE Cooperative Grant, the Rosebud Sioux Tribe financed the remainder of the project by obtaining the first-ever loan for a tribal wind energy project from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Rural Utility Service. The project will supply power to the reservation and will also sell power to the Basin Electric Power Cooperative. "Green tags" from the project are also being sold through NativeEnergy, LLC.

For additional information, see:

• Rosebud Sioux Tribe Project from the DOE Tribal Energy Program

• "Rosebud Sioux: First Tribe in the Nation to Sell Wind Power," in the Winter 2003 edition of the Native American Wind Interest Group Newsletter (PDF 469 KB), Download Adobe Reader.

• Rosebud Sioux Tribe website

• "Rosebud Sioux to Build First Tribal Utility-Scale Turbine," a May 15, 2002, article from DOE's EERE Network News.