Trump admin, DOE to cut $87M in tribal energy project funding in Humboldt County

Trump admin, DOE to cut $87M in tribal energy project funding in Humboldt County TERAS Project funds would help ‘transform one of the state’s least reliable electrical circuits into a highly resilient renewable energy system’

October 03, 2025

This week, Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Voight announced that the Trump administration would cancel nearly $8 billion in approved funding for green energy projects throughout 16 states (all of which voted for Kamala Harris in the 2020 election) in a move Congressman Jared Huffman (D-San Rafael) has characterized as “mafioso politics.”

Those cancelled funds, according to a list released by House Appropriations Committee Democrats, include an $87.6 million award to the Redwood Coast Energy Authority, announced in 2024, to advance the Tribal Energy Resilience and Sovereignty (TERAS) project.

Those funds, laid out through the Department of Energy’s Grid Resilience and Innovative Partnerships (GRIP) program, were intended to facilitate a tribally led effort to build a series of nested micro-grids along eastern Humboldt County’s 142 mile-long “Hoopa 1101” distribution circuit and to “transform one of the state’s least reliable electrical circuits into a highly resilient renewable energy system,” according to a news release from Huffman’s office published last August.

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By:  Robert Schaulis
Source: Eureka Times-Standard