Enabling California’s Resilient Tribal Communities with Mobile Renewable Power

California’s Tribal communities are highly impacted by planned and unplanned public safety power shutoffs and grid outages. Entire communities are often left without power, and many critical facilities are left inoperable or dependent on expensive, noisy, polluting fossil fuel powered generators. Outages can greatly limit the ability to provide critical services and timely responses to an emergency or disaster. Tribal communities are often very rural, which leads to longer distances traveled to reach critical services and they rarely have the ability to quickly mobilize electric power to where it's needed most. To address this issue, GRID Alternatives, ONYX Power, and the University of California, Riverside successfully deployed 30 gridindependent, rapidly deployable, modular and expandable generation systems to enable three California Tribal communities to provide critical electric services when the grid is down. Additionally, the reliable, highly mobile off-grid resources can support facilities and services throughout the year. This mobile critical resilience model provided the functionality to study multiple use cases and advance mobile generation technology throughout California, as well as provide immediate, flexible and scalable relief to communities suffering the most from the effects of wildfires and grid outages.