The Rosebud Sioux Indian Tribe installed a 750-kilowatt wind turbine on its reservation last week, marking the completion of a project that began eight years ago with wind resource monitoring. With half of the project funded by a Department of Energy (DOE) Cooperative Grant, the Rosebud Tribe financed the remainder of the project by obtaining the first-ever loan for a tribal wind energy project from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Rural Utility Service. The project will supply power to the reservation and will also sell power to the Basin Electric Power Cooperative. "Green tags" from the project are also being sold through NativeEnergy, LLC. The Rosebud Sioux Tribe is located in south-central South Dakota. DOE estimates that the 24 reservations in the northern Great Plains have a wind energy potential greater than 300 gigawatts.