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A tribe in Arizona planned to connect 600 homes to electricity. Then the funding was cut

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A tribe in Arizona planned to connect 600 homes to electricity. Then the funding was cut

https://www.npr.org/2025/10/07/nx-s1-5453913/trump-hopi-tribes-native-americans-clean-energy?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us

October 7, 20255:00 AM ET By Nate Perez, Ryan Kellman

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Under then-President Joe Biden, Congress passed the Inflation Reduction Act in 2022, providing nearly $2 billion to tribes to invest in renewable energy.

The Hopi were approved for a $25 million grant to install solar panels and battery storage for around 600 homes through a program called Solar for All.

But in August, the Trump administration terminated the Solar for All program, calling it wasteful.

Now, the tribe will be lucky to power around 100 homes from a much smaller pot of funding through a federal grant from the Tribal Electrification Program. Hopi officials say they will now have to decide who gets power and who doesn't.............................

............But this summer, Congress rolled back much of that IRA funding after lawmakers passed President Trump's key legislative agenda, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBB), which ends tax credits for large-scale renewable energy projects if construction begins after July 4, 2026, or if the project isn't placed into service by Dec. 31, 2027...........

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" It's not that it's gonna kill their project, 'cause it's gonna kill every project," says Thomas, who's also a member o riversedge Oct 8 #1

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................Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill Act doesn't just damage the Hopi's renewable energy dreams, says Thomas.

" It's not that it's gonna kill their project, 'cause it's gonna kill every project," says Thomas, who's also a member of the Pascua Yaqui Tribe in Arizona.

Johns, the former director of the Office of Indian Energy Policy and Programs, says there's probably a lot of confusion among tribes about what funding is still available.
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"Eliminating these clean energy programs within the IRA isn't just bad policy," says Johns. "It's a betrayal of the federal government's trust, responsibility to tribes."

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