Since 2020, ACORE Accelerate has built a community of more than 60 clean energy entrepreneurs across 30 states, including companies advancing projects with Tribal Nations. Their work reflects challenges facing the broader clean energy industry: unlocking capital, structuring viable projects, building trusted partnerships, and moving solutions to deployment.

Tribal energy offers a compelling lens into these challenges. Clean energy can help Tribal Nations advance energy sovereignty, resilience, affordability, and economic opportunity, yet financing and partnership gaps can make projects difficult to move forward.

Join ACORE Accelerate entrepreneurs Jennifer Rouda of 7Skyline and Saxon Metzger of Polaris EcoSystems, alongside Shiva Patel of Justice Climate Fund, Danny Desjarlais of Green Buffalo Institute, Tori Solis of the Lac Vieux Desert Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians, and ACORE, for a conversation on financing and deploying clean energy through the lens of Tribal energy. We’ll explore practical approaches to unlocking capital, building partnerships, and getting projects built, with lessons for the broader clean energy ecosystem.