DOE Office of Indian Energy: Leveraging Tribal Resources to Support Department of Defense Strategic Energy Goals

The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) has announced several 1 strategic energy goals including obtaining 25% of its energy Tribal Technology Generation Potential Megawatt Hours (MWh) from renewable energy and promoting energy security. Indian Wind 26,059,675 Tribes are uniquely situated to help the DoD achieve these Solar: Photovoltaic (PV) (Utility-Scale, Rural) 4,372,566,050 goals. According to DoD, there are more than 50 Tribes located adjacent to or near military installations. Solar: PV (Utility-Scale, Urban) 8,432,273

The DOE Office of Indian Energy has begun exploring how to Solar: Concentrating Solar Power 4,293,336,157 leverage the considerable renewable energy resources in Indian Geothermal: Enhanced Geothermal System 2,007,195,000 Country to help the DoD achieve some of its strategic energy Geothermal: Hydrothermal 1,805,368 goals, including educating tribal leaders and military leaders on Biomass: Solid 675,136 energy development partnerships on Indian lands, analyzing and mapping the most promising partnership opportunities, and work- Biomass: Gaseous 592,238 ing with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) Hydropower 2,605,585 to provide technical assistance to Tribes on working with local 1 Based on methodology from Lopez, A. et al. (2012). Forthcoming report to be published military installations. NREL estimates that Indian lands have the by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. following amounts of renewable energy generation potential: Analysis assumes development of single technology across all available land.

Of the Tribes identified as being located in close proximity to military bases, 54% are located in the West, 18% in the Pacific Northwest, and 12% in New England and New York.

Transmission Lines Military Bases Tribal Lands Tribes Located Near Military Bases There are 53 reservations located within 10 miles of 65 military installations. There are 20 reservations located near multiple bases. For example, the Mashantucket Pequot reservation is within 10 miles of the Coast Guard Academy and a Naval Submarine Base.

Tribe Military Bases Tribe Military Bases Tribe Military Bases Arizona Maine Texas Barry M Goldwater Passamaquoddy Tribe Ysleta Del Sur Pueblo Fort Bliss Columbia Air Force Station Air Force Range of Indian Township* ** Cocopah Utah USMC Air Station-Yuma Mississippi Skull Valley Dugway Proving Grounds Colorado River Yuma Proving Ground Navy Outlying Field Mississippi Choctaw Washington Barry M Goldwater Joe Williams Kent Army National Air Force Range Nevada Muckleshoot Guard Armory National Guard Rifle Range Fort Yuma (Quechan) Military Department Carson Colony Camp Murray National Guard USMC Air Station-Yuma Complex ANG Nisqually* Fort Lewis Military Reservation Yuma Proving Ground Fallon Naval Air Station Fallon Mcchord Air Force Base Barry M Goldwater Gila Bend Fallon Naval Air Station Air Force Range Bangor Naval Reservation Fallon Colony Bombing Range Naval Undersea Casa Grande Military Naval Air Station Fallon Port Gamble Reservation Engineering Station Gila River Clark County Army U.S. Naval Reservation Florence Military Reservation National Guard Luke Air Force Base Bangor Naval Reservation Las Vegas Colony Nellis Air Force Base Pascua Yaqui** Davis-Monthan Air Force Base Nellis Air Force Range Camp Mckean Naval Recreation Camp Papago Park Military Nellis Small Arms Range Salt River Reservation Camp Wesley Harris Fallon Naval Air Station Naval Reserve Davis-Monthan Air Force Base Bombing Range San Xavier Fort Lawton Sahuarita Air Force Range Walker River* Hawthorne Army Depot Jackson Park Naval Port Madison Barry M Goldwater U.S. Naval Reservation- Reservation Air Force Range Target Area Middle Point And Orchard Tohono O’odham* Casa Grande Military Military Department Point Military Reservation Washoe Reservation Complex ANG Naval Undersea Florence Military Reservation New Mexico Engineering Station Puget Sound Naval Shipyard British Columbia New Mexico National Cochiti Pueblo U.S. Naval Reservation Nooksack CFB Esquimalt-Matsqui Guard Armory Camp Murray National Guard California Isleta Pueblo Kirtland Air Force Base Fort Lewis Military Reservation Manchester (Point Mescalero Apache White Sands Missile Range Point Arena Airforce Station Puyallup Kent Army National Arena) Rancheria Fort Wingate Navajo* Guard Armory Military Reservation Middletown Rancheria Mcchord Air Force Base Camp Pendleton Sandia Pueblo Kirtland Air Force Base Pala Whidbey Island Marine Corps Base New Mexico National Swinomish Santo Domingo Pueblo Naval Air Station Camp Pendleton Guard Armory Pechanga U.S. Lighthouse Reservation Marine Corps Base Tulalip Ysleta Del Sur Pueblo Fort Bliss U.S. Naval Station Everett Santa Rosa Rancheria Lemoore Naval Air Station Fort Wingate Military Zuni Pueblo** Yakama Boardman Bombing Range Marine Corps AGCC Reservation Twenty-Nine Palms Yakama Yakima Firing Center Twentynine Palms New York Wisconsin Connecticut Stockbridge Research Facility Oneida (East) Badger Army New London Naval Verona Research Facility Ammunition Plant Submarine Base Hancock Field Ang Base Mashantucket Pequot Onondaga Camp Williams United States Coast Guard USMC Reserve Training Center Ho-Chunk Academy S Fort Mccoy Niagara Falls Air Tuscarora Madison Truax Field Army Florida Reserve Station National Guard Navsea Warfare Center North Dakota Oneida (West) Denis J Murphy Army Reserve Fort Lauderdale Hollywood Devils Lake Sioux Camp Grafton U.S. Coast Guard Station Fort Lauderdale Ontario Navsea Warfare Center Department of Tuscarora Seminole Homestead Fort Lauderdale National Defense Trust Lands U.S. Coast Guard Station Rhode Island Fort Lauderdale Narragansett Fort Nathaniel Greene energy.gov/indianenergy | [email protected]

Analysis conducted by the U.S. Department of Energy National Renewable Energy Laboratory using the 2012 Homeland Security November 2012 • DOE/IE-0009 Infrastructure Protection geospatial dataset. Printed with a renewable-source ink on paper containing at least *Tribe located adjacent to a military base. **DOE Office of Indian Energy Strategic Technical Assistance Response Team (START) Project 50% wastepaper, including 10% post consumer waste.