Welcome to the AEW web site!
Beginning in 2007, the Alternative Energy Workforce Development Program is a student research and development internship
at Fort Peck Community College, located in Poplar, Montana with a sattelite campus in neighboring Wolf Point. Both cities
are on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation in northeast Montana, which is home to the Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes.
Funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, student-interns are currently doing feasability research for the Tribes
and the for the college, with the focus aimed at the development of the alternative energy resources that are
available on our tribal lands.
By way of a stipend, the internship is helping the student-workers financially in achieving their educational
goals, and - through research, work and travel within the energy field - it will help to build a strong
and extremely valuable knowledge base within our communities, of the rapidly expanding renewable
energy fields in Montana, in the U.S. and globally. It is creating a technical expertise, if you will,
among our people.
