Items Tagged with 'rural energy'

USDA paused new REAP grant awards earlier this year so it could implement new regulations under an executive order tasking agencies with reducing subsidies for wind, solar and other “green” energy sources. But the pause also could cause applicants already working on projects to lose their awards.

The Agriculture Department on Thursday said it will be distributing $124 million through two programs aimed at expanding renewable energy and fertilizer production. 

Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack made a series of energy infrastructure announcements Wednesday, including the first under an Inflation Reduction Act effort to stand up renewable energy projects in rural America.