Colusa Indian Community Council Tribal Electrification Expansion Project

[Music] so today we have the Reese Road uh housing power project underway this is an extension of our existing microgrid distribution system to power up new houses uh new loads the microgrid has existed already for 20 years we already power the rest of the reservation and so as new loads are added um that takes money and so far the doe has been been here to help support and uh this project is no exception micro grid is a big buzzword in the industry these days not very many people actually know what it means to live in the incubator of one for two decades owning operating managing maintaining and expanding that micro grid and so we have this very unique subject matter expertise that we are offering now through a section 17 100% tribally owned Corporation to any other tribe who might be able to benefit from it a state of California through PG um had a lot of rolling blackouts and we would be out of power for um days to weeks at a time having those blackouts um it wasn't doing us good and we're paying way too much to PG in the state of California to um continue to struggle and now our coachen currently um runs in Island mode to where we are not depend on on P we haven't had a blackout in over 12 years our families are taken care of our businesses are taken care of and we've been able to expand on that um for our future Generations it's been life changing [Music] [Music]