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RIT/ESI PhD Student wins Outstanding Graduate Woman
Sherralyn Sneezer will receive award during Graduate Education Week Sherralyn Sneezer, a Ph.D. student co-advised by ESI with the Rochester… View Article
ESI, RIT, Navajo Tech Win Energy Sovereignty Grant
ESI and its parent entity, the Microgrid Systems Laboratory, along with the Rochester Institute of Technology and Navajo Technical University,… View Article
New Federal Funding Sources
Several new federal funding programs, via the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA, aka the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law) and the… View Article
Native American Communities at Global Energy Access Workshop
The Microgrid Systems Laboratory (founder of the Energy Sovereignty Institute) convened a Global Energy Access Innovation Workshop in Kigali, Rwanda with the… View Article
You’re Invited! NM Net Zero Energy Summit
ESI’s co-founder, the Microgrid Systems Lab, is once again producing the annual NM Distributed Energy Summit (virtual). Please join us… View Article
Energy Sovereignty Videos
We are pleased to share two short videos produced by ESI for our community. The first, “Tribal Energy Sovereignty,” features… View Article
UNM-Taos is Hiring!
UNM-Taos, which serves Native Americans and their communities in solar energy technology training and other areas, is hiring construction tech… View Article
ESI, RIT Announce PhD Student
We are delighted to announce that Sherralyn Sneezer (Navajo/Dine) has been selected from a highly competitive field of applicants as… View Article
Funded PhD Opportunity at RIT
Rochester Institute of Technology is offering a fully funded PhD in energy sovereignty research topics, in collaboration with the Energy… View Article
Support NM Community Solar!
UPDATED 4/6/21: Governor Lujan Grisham has signed the Community Solar Act! It passed the Senate Tax, Business and Transportation Committee… View Article
Federal Energy Policy Act of 2020
The Energy Policy Act of 2020, signed into law by the President in December 2020, offers many diverse opportunities, programs,… View Article
OIE Program Presentations Available
This year, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Indian Energy hosted its first-ever Virtual Program Review December 14–17. The… View Article
How to Go Solar and Pay For It
By Ken Hughes Despite centuries of passively capturing the sun’s warmth such as at Acoma’s Sky City, where homes are… View Article