Muscogee Creek Nation & cDots, Oklahoma

The Muscogee (Creek) Nation (MCN), in partnership with the cDots Institute for Innovation & Economic Growth and the College of the Muscogee Nation (CMN), is advancing a Tribal-led energy and infrastructure investment strategy focused on lowering energy costs, strengthening critical services, and supporting long-term economic opportunity across communities in Oklahoma. This work leverages structured public–private partnerships to move beyond one-off projects and build a repeatable, financeable, and scalable delivery model, reflecting the Nation’s readiness for the new economy and its commitment to addressing systemic underinvestment through practical solutions that create lasting value for future generations.

MCN provides executive leadership and governance, setting strategic direction, energy policy ownership principles, and institutional roles to ensure investments align with Tribal sovereignty and community priorities. Through coordination across Environmental Services, Commerce, Finance, healthcare, and affiliated entities, the Nation identifies and prioritizes facilities and projects that improve reliability, reduce long-term operating costs, and support the local economy. The Tribal Utility Authority (TUA), as MCN’s tribally chartered utility entity, is designated as the long-term institution for planning, owning, operating, and managing clean energy and utility infrastructure, ensuring system reliability, regulatory compliance, and energy sovereignty.

cDots supports execution by connecting the dots across multiple stakeholders and aligning capital pathways, technical assistance, workforce development, and compliance through structured public–private partnerships. Drawing on experience in market building, public, private partnerships and project finance, cDots helps de-risk early-stage projects, standardize evaluation and financing approaches, aggregate opportunities to attract private capital, and prepare investable portfolios with an estimated future investment potential of at least $50 million.

The College of the Muscogee Nation anchors workforce and skills readiness, aligning education, credentialing, and applied learning with near-term project pipelines. This approach supports durable local jobs in construction, operations, maintenance, and emerging areas of energy innovation—creating pathways for Muscogee citizens to participate in, lead, and sustain the Nation’s growing energy and infrastructure economy.

Initial focus areas include energy-efficient buildings; distributed power and storage for government facilities, healthcare centers, community and business infrastructure; microgrids for critical and remote facilities; and grid-interactive energy resources designed to integrate with future TUA operations. Together, these efforts strengthen essential services today while enabling Tribal-led ownership, economic growth, and resilience over time.

Hears Muscogee (Creek) Nation Leaders

"This work is about investing in people every bit as much as infrastructure. By aligning education, workforce pathways, and real projects, we are preparing Muscogee citizens - especially our youth - to step into leadership roles in the clean-energy economy and carry that leadership forward for future generations".

David W. Hill, Principal Chief, Muscogee (Creek) Nation

“For Native Nations, clean energy workforce development is an expression of sovereignty and stewardship. At the College of the Muscogee Nation, we are preparing our people for careers that honor our responsibility to care for the land while building economic strength for future generations.”

Dr. Montie Randall, President, College of the Muscogee Nation

“This program represents a transformative approach to addressing the Tribal Nation's environmental and economic challenges and long overdue catalyzing of the Native talent, wisdom, and leadership."

Chris Azbell, Extension Coordinator and Clean Energy Workforce Development Lead,College of the Muscogee Nation