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Cody Two Bears
Founder and CEO of Indigenized Energy, a Native-led nonprofit dedicated to tribal energy sovereignty and renewable energy for Indigenous communities.
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Jul 21, 2026
Cody Two Bears on Indigenized Energy's Community-Centric Grid Strategy
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16:14Cody Two BearsGUEST
What I've learned, and w- Indigenize Energy's been doing this first for the last seven years now, Mitch, which is pretty exciting.
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16:20Cody Two BearsGUEST
But, um, so what we do is when we create a program, a distributed, a residential solar program for a tribe, usually we need some upfront capital upfront or philanthropic dollars to help kickstart a program, but knowing that these programs are gonna be self-sufficient on their own.
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16:37Cody Two BearsGUEST
So what I mean by that, Mitch, if you had a home on the reservation and you wanted solar and you wanted to sign up for a program, you could sign up for that program.
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16:45Cody Two BearsGUEST
Every program that we create is different from each reservation that we worked with.
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16:49Cody Two BearsGUEST
One reservation would have a flat rate fee that you would pay to be a part of the program.
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37:52Mitch RatcliffeHOST
And again, thinking about any small community, not just tribal communities, how do you negotiate from a place of equality based on setting your own local standards and, and standing by them?