Energy Consumption
and Renewable Energy Development Potential
on Indian Lands
April 2000
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This report was prepared by the staff of the Renewable
Information Team, Coal, Nuclear, and Renewables Division, Office of Coal, Nuclear,
Electric and Alternate Fuels; and the Energy Consumption Division, Office of Energy
Markets and End Use. General information regarding this publication may be obtained
from Fred Mayes, Team Leader. (202/287-1750, e-mail fred.mayes@eia.doe.gov).
Questions regarding specific information in the report
should be directed as follows:
Preface
In June 1999, the Secretary of the Department of Energy, Bill Richardson, launched
the Department's broad based Indian Initiative. As part of this initiative, he
asked the Energy Information Administration (EIA) to prepare a study of energy on
Indian lands to include:
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"the electricity use and needs of Indian households and tribes,"
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"the comparative electricity rates that Indian households are paying, and"
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"the potential for renewable resources development of Indian lands."
The EIA prepared this report in response to the Secretary's request. The report is
organized into the four chapters and four appendices that follow.
Contents
Executive Summary
1.
Introduction
2. Energy Consumption on Indian
Lands
��� Retail Electricity Rates Paid by Indians Living
on Indian Reservations and TJSAs
3. Potential for Renewable Energy
��� Introduction
��� Renewable Resources on Indian Lands
��� Federal and Oklahoma Indian Lands
��� Solar Resources for Flat Plate Collectors
��� Solar Resources for Concentrating
Systems
��� Wind Resources
��� Biomass Resources
��� Geothermal Resources
��� Transmission Lines with Federal and Oklahoma
Indian Lands
��� Hydropower
��� Renewable Resources and Development Costs for
Indian Lands
��� Project Criteria
��� Limitations on Use of Renewable Energy
4. Conclusions
Appendices
��� A. DOE Funded Indian Energy Projects, Fiscal Years 1994
Through 1999
��� B. Energy Consumption Detailed Tables
��� C. Dynamic Maps of Renewable Resource Potential of Indian
Lands
��� D. Map of North American Electric Reliability Council
Regions
Glossary
Tables
����1. 1998 Residential Average
Revenue per Kilowatthour
����2. Reservations with the Highest Residential
Electricity Prices
����3. Classes of Wind Power Density at 10 m and 50
m
����4. Indian Lands with Highest Potential for
Central Station Development
����5. Renewable Options for Indian Lands with
High Incidences of Indian Households without Electricity
����6. Distribution of Indian Lands by Wind
Class
����7. Distribution of Indian Lands by Biomass
Category
����8. States with Indian Lands and State RPS or
Public Benefits Funds
����9. Wholesale Electricity Prices, 1998
B1a. Number and Percent Distribution of Energy Costs
of Households for Electricity
B1b. Number and Percent Distribution of Energy Costs
of Oklahoma TJSA Households for Electricity
B2a. Number and Percent Distribution of Energy Costs
of Households for Natural Gas
B2b. Number and Percent Distribution of Energy
Costs of Oklahoma TJSA Households for Natural Gas
B3a. Number and Percent Distribution of Energy
Costs of Households for Other Fuels
B3b. Number and Percent Distribution of Energy
Costs of Oklahoma TJSA Households for Other Fuels
Figures
���� 1. Percent Distribution
of U.S. and Indian Households by Electricity Access/Payment Status, 1990
���� 2. Percentiles of Electricity Costs Relative
to Total Household Income, for Households That Pay for Electricity, 1990
���� 3. 90th Percentile of Energy Costs
Relative to Total Household Income for Households Paying for the Energy,
1990
���� 4. Energy Consumption and Expenditures for Major
Energy Sources in All Indian Households, 1997
���� 5. Consumption in 1997 Per Household Using Energy
Source: All U.S. Households and All Indian Households
���� 6. Expenditures in 1997 Per Household Using Energy
Source: All U.S. Households and All Indian Households
���� 7. Electricity and Natural Gas Prices: All U.S.
Households and All Indian Households
���� 8. Distribution of Residential Electricity Rates
on Indian Lands
���� 9. Number of Non-Municipal Utilities Serving
Counties with Indian Lands
����10. Federal and Oklahoma Indian Lands
����11. Solar Photovoltaic (PV) Resource Potential
����12. Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) Resource Potential
����13. Wind Resource Potential
����14. Biomass and Biofuels Resource Potential
����15. Geothermal Resource Potential
����16. Transmission Lines with Federal and Oklahoma
Indian Lands
����17. Distribution of Wind Development Costs Excluding
Transmission Costs
����18. Example of Wind Levelized Costs Including
Transmission for Northwest Power Region
����19. Distribution of Biomass Development Costs
Excluding Transmission Costs
����20. Distribution of Resources for Concentrated
Solar Applications
����21. Distribution of Resources for Photovoltaics
����22. Capital Costs of Electric Generating Technologies
����D1. North American Electric Reliability Council
Regions for the Contiguous United States, Alaska and Hawaii
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