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Ken Ammon

Ken Ammon

Jul 16, 2026

4:29
Yeah.
4:29
Which isn't uncommon, unfortunately, in Indian country.
4:33
Oftentimes tribes are, you know, being served by the last mile of, of distribution, which was the case here.
4:38
This is just an hour north of the capital of California, and suffering this type of outage rate.
4:44
And so instead of handing over tens of millions of dollars of the tribe's money to PG&E, the tribe decided to invest in their own energy future.

13 MINS LATER

17:30
Mm-hmm.
17:30
But the states will, you know, force them to in most cases, but they're not gonna pay a lot for that, for that electricity.
17:36
So i- in those cases, we'll go find or try to find a third party offtaker, pay a little bit, uh, higher premium on the power.
4:29
Yeah.
4:29
Which isn't uncommon, unfortunately, in Indian country.
4:32
Oftentimes tribes are, you know, being served by the last mile of, of distribution, which was the case here.
4:38
This is just an hour north of the capital of California, and suffering this type of outage rate.
4:44
And so instead of handing over tens of millions of dollars of the tribe's money to PG&E, the tribe decided to invest in their own energy future.

13 MINS LATER

17:30
Mm
17:30
...
17:30
but the states will, you know, force them to in most cases, but they're not gonna pay a lot for that, for that electricity.

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