NAREEP is a DOE-funded joint project of Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley that provides technical assistance to Native American reservations in the areas of renewable energy and energy efficiency. Its purpose is to respond to the desire of Native Americans for cost-effective, culturally appropriate, environmentally benign energy services for tribal community needs and economic development. NAREEP's ultimate goal is to help tribal communities control their own energy future. To support this goal, the Applications Team, working with the Energy and Resources Group at UC Berkeley, is leading efforts to develop the information base and to transfer the relevent technology. NAREEP's research agenda is directed toward producing the following products, scheduled for completion in the fall and winter of 1996:

• a workbook on energy efficiency and renewable energy (EE/RE) for tribal decisionmakers and staff that covers project development, decision tools, EE/RE technologies, finance and funding, legal and regulatory issues, and tribal business;
• a technical information volume that supplements the workbook and includes reprinted materials covering the same topics as the workbook but in more depth;
• a resource guide listing contacts useful to tribes interested in EE/RE projects;
• a case-history volume assessing; tribal experience with EE/RE projects;
• a study quantifying the energy budgets of reservations;
• a study of electric utility issues from the perspective of tribes and tribal utility authority in the current climate of restructuring; and
• creation of a World Wide Web site for NAREEP.

--John Busch

John Busch
Energy Analysis Program
(510) 486-7279; (510) 486-6996 fax