Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2025 14:29:16 +0000
A new $6 billion round of clean energy funding will benefit rural communities in about two dozen US states, unless the incoming Trump administration figures out a way to stop it.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Wed, 01 Jan 2025 19:09:40 +0000
47 counties in southern Texas will soon be getting their electricity from renewable energy plus storage thanks to USDA funding.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2024 19:51:31 +0000
San Miguel Electric Cooperative Inc. (SMECI), a not-for-profit generation and transmission rural electric cooperative located in Atascosa County, Texas, was awarded more than $1.4 billion through the U.S. Department of […]
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Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Sun, 08 Dec 2024 14:58:55 +0000
Should we let businesses that contaminate community water systems write their own rules for what counts as unhealthy? Should we allow factories to spew dangerous emissions into the air? Should we turn our backs when employers force workers to endure dangerous conditions? Of course not. We want to protect each … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2024 16:54:20 +0000
The distributed wind market is growing both in size and variety, according to a new PNNL-led report An electric vehicle manufacturer, two schools and two Alaskan villages: these are just some of the organizations using wind turbines to help meet their energy needs. For the last eight months, researchers from … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: RMI| Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2024 14:50:52 +0000
Projects represent historic investments of $29 billion in clean energy that will benefit 1 in 5 rural Americans The first wave of 16 rural electric cooperatives (co-ops) selected to receive the USDA’s Empowering Rural America (New ERA) funding plan to leverage their awards to deploy carbon-free energy to help power … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Press Release| Date: Tue, 06 Aug 2024 20:55:50 +0000
A large solar farm is coming to Atlanta Motorsports Park (AMP), a premier motorsports club in Dawsonville renowned for its F1-style road course and thrilling karting course. Located in Dawsonville, Ga., the AMP campus is adding solar power through an array of 747 panels, generating 480 watts per panel, for … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: RMI| Date: Mon, 06 May 2024 03:33:42 +0000
Updated efficiency standards from HUD and USDA will lower bills and make homes safer. Here’s how. On April 25, the US Departments of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and Agriculture (USDA) announced final energy efficiency standards for new home construction. The refreshed standards will impact up to a quarter of … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: NRDC| Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2024 20:18:03 +0000
NRDC endorses legislation to improve USDA’s Rural Energy for America Program. The Rural Energy for America Program (REAP) has been … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Sat, 02 Dec 2023 14:11:09 +0000
Colorado-based cooperative Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association will accelerate the closure of a coal-fired unit in the northwestern part of the state, and also announced a retirement date for an […]
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