Reports & Publications
Reports
‘mînawâchihiwewi-ne-wîkiwan/Healing Our Home: Buildings of the Land’ (2025)
Debates Indígenas
This article explores a transformative housing initiative led by Bohdana Chiupka-Innes, a Moose Cree woman and one of the few Indigenous intern architects in so-called Canada. This project aims to restore the Moose Cree First Nation’s traditional way of life, ililiwi-pimâtisîwin, by integrating cultural values into sustainable, energy-efficient housing.
Sustainable Jobs for Indigenous Clean Energy Action (2024)
This policy brief was prepared in partnership with the International Institute for Sustainable Development. It provides recommendations, grounded in lessons and successes from Indigenous Clean Energy’s programs and experiences, to inform how federal sustainable jobs programming and investments can be implemented to support Indigenous-led solutions in clean energy.
Beyond Sustainability: The Power of Indigenous Healthy Energy Homes (2024)
This scoping paper is part of a broader research project undertaken in collaboration between the Canadian Climate Institute’s Indigenous Research stream and Indigenous Clean Energy that focuses on policy changes for unlocking positive interconnections between Indigenous housing, energy, and health.
Enabling Efficiency: Pathways and recommendations based on the perceptions, barriers, and needs of Indigenous people, communities, and organizations (2023)
This report was prepared by ICE for Natural Resources Canada’s Office of Energy Efficiency. The outcome of this research is a set of recommendations for how to design programs and policies that truly enable Indigenous energy efficiency efforts.
Waves of Change (2022)
A scoping paper that highlights the important leadership role that Indigenous Peoples play in lowering Canada’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and traces the rising waves of Indigenous participation in clean energy over the past two decades.
*This report was authored by ICE in partnership with the Canadian Climate Institute.
Electric Vehicles in Rural and Remote Communities Report (2022)
This report was prepared by Dunsky Energy + Climate Advisors and commissioned by Indigenous Clean Energy (ICE). The report explores the opportunities that exist for electric vehicles (EVs) including personal vehicles, buses, and utility for communities.
Energy Foundations Report (2021)
A Canada-wide examination of infrastructure investment required to make Indigenous homes energy-efficient and healthy, which will catalyze an array of economic and social outcomes, including major action on climate change.
Accelerating Transition Data Report (2020)
A carefully constructed document that highlights the economic impacts of Indigenous leadership in catalyzing the transition to a clean energy future across Canada.
Powering Reconciliation (2018)
A survey of Indigenous participation in Canada’s growing clean energy economy. This survey draws on national research and the company’s database of clean energy projects which has been maintained for over eight years.
Books
Aboriginal Power
by Chris Henderson
Aboriginal Power shines a spotlight on how, after decades of missed and mismanaged opportunities, Indigenous Peoples in Canada are building sustainable prosperity through participation in clean energy projects.
*If you are interested in purchasing an Aboriginal Power book, please send an email to info@indigenouscleanenergy.com
Annual Reports
2024 Annual Report
2023 Annual Report
2021-22 Annual Report
2020 Annual Report
Waves of Change (2022)
A scoping paper that highlights the important leadership role that Indigenous Peoples play in lowering Canada’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and traces the rising waves of Indigenous participation in clean energy over the past two decades. *This report was authored by ICE in partnership with the Canadian Climate Institute.
Energy Foundations Report (2021)
A Canada-wide examination of infrastructure investment required to make Indigenous homes energy-efficient and healthy, which will catalyze an array of economic and social outcomes, including major action on climate change.
Accelerating Transition Data Report (2020)
A carefully constructed document that highlights the economic impacts of Indigenous leadership in catalyzing the transition to a clean energy future across Canada.
Powering Reconciliation (2018)
A survey of Indigenous participation in Canada’s growing clean energy economy. This survey draws on national research and the company’s database of clean energy projects which has been maintained for over eight years.2020 Annual Report
