Learn in this Climate.gov case study how Northern California’s Blue Lake Rancheria Tribe is leading on climate change mitigation, energy efficiency and renewables, and community resiliency – including their work to:
- conduct strategic climate action planning activities;
- build an energy-efficient hotel;
- install an innovative biomass-gasification-fuel cell system that turns biomass into electricity;
- install solar on tribal housing;
- participate in utility demand response programs;
- implement numerous energy and water efficiency measures (building insulation, HVAC, lighting, and more);
- launch a $6.3 million, community-scale renewable energy project that will demonstrate the tribal community as a “low-carbon community microgrid.”
As of Dec. 2015, the Tribe has reduced energy consumption from 2008 levels by 35 percent.