Project Title:
FCPC Solar Broadband Project
Funding Program:
Tribal Broadband Connectivity Program
Project Purpose/Type:
The Forest County Potawatomi Community Solar Broadband Project proposes to provide reliable broadband service to the Tribe’s critical solar arrays. This project will support economic and workforce development capacity in addition to improving the Tribe’s resilience through increased telework capabilities.
State(s):
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$125,232.00Funding Amount
The project proposes to upgrade and improve existing broadband infrastructure to enable the delivery of higher speed broadband service to community anchor institutions located on the FCPC reservation, including the FCPC Energy Department and the Tribal Government campus. FCPC proposes to conduct the following activities:
- Install wired connections to each of the 17 generation meters on the solar arrays to provide more reliable and higher-speed broadband service and eliminate costly data transmission gaps.
- Provide real time solar PV generation data to the FCPC Energy Department supporting remote work capability as well as to provide reliable solar PV generation data that is currently vulnerable to technical failure and looming obsolescence due to insufficient broadband access.
- Hire two qualified contractors to install underground conduit and connect the Tribe’s solar arrays to tech closet facilities.
To provide reliable broadband service to the Tribe’s solar arrays driving economic and workforce development capacity and improvements to the Tribe’s resiliency by increasing telework capacity and capability.
The proposed project service area will cover several community anchor institutions located on the reservation, including one that serves as a key source of employment in Forest County, supplying over 200 jobs. Additional sites are in the Stone Lake area, which houses the FCPC Tribal Government Campus.