Navajo residential solar energy access as a global model

doi:10.1016/j.tej.2018.07.003

Title: Navajo residential solar energy access as a global model

Abstract

Here, this case study focuses on the Navajo Nation’s efforts to provided residential power access through solar photovoltaic systems to some of its approximately 34,000 remote off-grid tribal members. The solution the Nation has adopted in collaboration with Sandia National Laboratories offers insights into how the Navajo Tribal Utility Authority’s work could serve as a residential model to meet the needs of the 1.2 billion people globally who are without electrical residential power.

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Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)

Publication Date:: 2018-09-11

Research Org.:: Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)

OSTI Identifier:: 1474123

Report Number(s):: SAND-2018-8805J
Journal ID: ISSN 1040-6190; 667168

Grant/Contract Number:: AC04-94AL85000

Resource Type:: Accepted Manuscript

Journal Name:: Electricity Journal

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Volume: 31; Journal Issue: 6; Journal ID: ISSN 1040-6190

Publisher:: Elsevier

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 14 SOLAR ENERGY; Navajo; Indian tribes; Solar energy; Solar residential system; Photovoltaic; Off-grid systems

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  title        = {Navajo residential solar energy access as a global model},

  author       = {Begay, Sandra K.},

  abstractNote = {Here, this case study focuses on the Navajo Nation’s efforts to provided residential power access through solar photovoltaic systems to some of its approximately 34,000 remote off-grid tribal members. The solution the Nation has adopted in collaboration with Sandia National Laboratories offers insights into how the Navajo Tribal Utility Authority’s work could serve as a residential model to meet the needs of the 1.2 billion people globally who are without electrical residential power.},

  doi          = {10.1016/j.tej.2018.07.003},

  journal      = {Electricity Journal},

  number       = 6,

  volume       = 31,

  place        = {United States},

  year         = {2018},

  month        = {9}

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