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• > Farm Energy Success Stories Report Released
• > Howard Learner in the Argus Leader: SD Leaders Must Do More to Create Wind Power Jobs
• > President Boosts Farm Energy Funding
• > ELPC’s John Moore Interviewed on Policies that Encourage Wind Energy
• > National Farmers Union Supports Cap and Trade – Benefits to Agriculture Outweigh the Costs

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Farm Energy Success Stories Report Released

A new report from the Environmental Law & Policy Center (ELPC) unearths the stories of farmers and rural small businesses that are making clean energy their newest cash crop.

Farm Energy Success Stories highlights clean energy projects that were made possible with grants and loan guarantees from the Farm Bill’s Rural Energy for America Program (REAP).

Download the Report Here

Community Wind Financing Handbook

ELPC’s newly updated Community Wind Financing Handbook is now available!  This hot-off-the-press guide reflects new financing opportunities available from federal energy and economic stimulus legislation, the new Farm Bill, and state incentives. (more…)

Success Stories

NEW: Crosswind Energy Project

Ruthven, Iowa

Utility-Scale Wind

$2,326,000 Grant +

$250,000 Loan Guarantee

2007

With the help of REAP, a group of rural Iowa entrepreneurs joined together to develop a locally-owned wind farm that produces clean power, energy independence and economic development. (more…)