The Standing Rock Sioux reservation near the border of North and South Dakota has some of America's most powerful winds, with 20 mile an hour (mph) gusts regularly scouring its vast plains.
The tribe in 2020 launched a plan to harness that energy with what would be the country's first tribal owned utility-scale wind farm – a project meant to supply jobs, money and electricity to a place where those things are in short supply.
Those tribal leaders said half of these projects are slogging through the grid connection queue, with the rest yet to begin the process, reflecting the difficulties small developers face navigating the grid interconnection process and accessing IRA incentives. The Standing Rock Sioux have so far spent $3 million on technical studies and fees to remain in the queue, with no guarantee of approval. More deposits ranging from $1 million to $10 million may be forthcoming.
SAGE estimates the wind farm will bring in $210 million of revenue over 25 years from the sale of power to the regional grid, creating dozens of direct jobs and more indirectly over time as the tribe invests in new initiatives. McNeil said the project is in the middle of the pack in the Southwest Power Pool's queue of over 400 projects.The tribe raised much of the $3 million it has spent so far from philanthropies and family funds, including the Sierra Club Foundation, Wallace Global Fund, and the Bush Foundation in the form of forgivable loans.
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