It’s the latest setback for the longstanding REAP program, casting uncertainty over the future of a resource that helps ...

The program got a boost from the Inflation Reduction Act, but the Trump administration is remaking the program with its own ...

The path to a career in the solar industry is open to the people interested enough in the field. George Horrocks had a ...

Funding for the three rural energy programs—the Rural Energy For America Program (REAP), Empowering Rural America (New ERA) program, and Powering Affordable Clean Energy (PACE) program —is ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has extended the deadline for thousands of rural energy program grantees, who’ve been promised funding totaling $10.8 billion, including $2.5 billion in loan ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is releasing some funding for grants that helped farms and other businesses in New Hampshire build solar arrays and other small renewable energy systems.

The Rural Energy for America Program has closed two of its four application windows this year. The grants can help farmers with things like installing solar or making energy efficiency upgrades.

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Farmers in Trump country were counting on clean energy grants. ... The law added more than $1 billion to the USDA’s 17-year-old Rural Energy for America (REAP) program.

About 6,000 REAP grants funded with IRA money have been paused and are being reviewed for compliance with Trump’s executive order, according to a March 5 email from the USDA’s rural ...

WASHINGTON – Congressman Scott Murphy, NY-20, announced more than $41,000 in grants across the 20th District through the USDA’s Rural Energy for America Program. Rural development funds will ...