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

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 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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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 ...

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.

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

Bruce Everly has been helping Indiana farmers apply for funding from the federal Rural Energy for America Program, which provides grants for solar, wind, energy-efficiency upgrades, grain dryers, ...

For now, many are waiting, hoping the next update isn’t another letdown. Farmers blindsided by sudden pivot from major US ...

Today the USDA announced more than $3 billion in New ERA financing intended to decrease electricity prices in rural communities nationwide.

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 ...