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The Navajo Nation is a Native American reservation the size of West Virginia located in Northeastern Arizona, Southeastern Utah, and Northwestern New Mexico.  Mountains, mesas, and canyons divide the sprawling reservation, which hosts seven parks and recreation areas. 

The Navajo is the largest U.S. Indian tribe. The Navajo (Diné) people are renowned for their silver and turquoise jewelry, hand woven rugs, and sand paintings.   The tribe also has a well-known U.S. military legacy as a result of the Navajo Code Talkers in WWII.  The 180,000 and growing population on the reservation seeks to balance their heritage and culture with contemporary progress.

While the Navajo Nation has worked to enhance infrastructure, about 38 percent of households, or 18,000 Navajo families, still lack electricity. Despite requests for modern, grid-based power, the remote location of many Navajo households makes electricity extremely expensive, forcing many people to rely on wood and kerosene for energy.  This problem is exacerbated by the Navajo Nation’s 42% unemployment rate, and the 43% of the population that live below the poverty line.

The Navajo Nation’s remote location and abundance of sunlight makes it ideal for the solar technologies that Eagle Energy provides. New Mexico and Arizona are some of the best locations in the United States for solar power, and in many cases Navajo homes are far from the nearest electrical grid with little hope of being connected in the near future. Solar technologies allow these remote households to access modern lighting immediately without any additional infrastructure costs.

Please click here to learn more about our current projects on the Navajo Nation.