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More energy projects funded by REAP

A new round of projects in 22 states will receive energy funding from the USDA’s Rural Energy for America Program (REAP). The Ag Department announced Wednesday a new group of farmers and rural small businesses that will receive financial assistance to help reduce their energy costs and consumption.

USDA’s Rural Business Administrator Lillian Salerno says several projects will be funded in Indiana, “One of them is to install a biomass burner. The recipient is Adam Hill and that’s a grant amount. We also have an Indiana – three of the projects are for efficient energy for grain dryers. Those are for ag producers.”

Fourteen projects are being funded in Iowa – and – a half dozen in Wisconsin, “Five of those projects are solar energy systems. The other one is installing a wind turbine and solar system.”

The USDA says the REAP assistance helps support President Obama’s Climate Action Plan as outlined in June, to “reduce carbon pollution and better prepare the United States for the impacts of climate change.”

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