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Renewable Energy for Farmers and Ranchers

Utah Clean Energy is engaged in outreach to rural farmers, ranchers and small businesses to promote the development of renewable energy in Utah's agricultural sector.

USDA Farm Bill: Clean Energy Grants

We assist applicants in applying for appropriations grants, determining appropriate projects, and education about local programs. We also work to ensure that mandatory appropriations remain available to Utah farmers and ranchers.

• USDA Farm Bill
• Summary of the Clean Energy Title

To learn more or for guidance in the application process, contact:

Richard Carrig

Rural Business and Cooperative Program Director

USDA-Rural Development

Wallace F. Bennett Federal Building

125 South State Street, Room 4233

Salt Lake City, Utah 84138

Phone: (801) 524-4328

email: Richard.Carrig@ut.usda.gov

25X25

By 2025, America's farms, forests and ranches will provide 25 percent of the total energy consumed in the United States, while continuing to produce safe, abundant, and affordable food, feed and fiber.

To learn more about 25X25 or endorse this vision, please visit:
www.25x25.org

Other Resources for Agricultural-Based Energy

• American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy Forum on Energy Efficiency in Agriculture (February 20-22, 2008 in Des Moines, Iowa)  http://www.aceee.org/pubsmeetings/index.htm

• Animal Waste to Energy Case Study (Colorado): http://www.wapa.gov/es/pubs/esb/2004/feb/feb042.htm
  
• Biomass Program (US DOE) http://www1.eere.energy.gov/biomass/biomass_feedstocks.html

• Center for Ecological Technology – Farm and Business http://cetonline.org/FarmBusiness/for_your_farm_or_business.php

• Database of State Incentives for Renewable Energy: http://dsireusa.org/

• Department of Energy – Efficiency and Renewable Energy for Farms & Ranches http://www.eere.energy.gov/consumer/your_workplace/farms_ranches/index.cfm/mytopic=30001
  
• Environmental Law & Policy Center - Farm Energy http://www.farmenergy.org/

• Federal Funding Opportunities: http://www.epa.gov/agstar/online_digest.html#funding

• Geothermal Heat Pump Consortium http://www.geoexchange.org/

• Harvesting Clean Energy http://www.harvestcleanenergy.org/aboutus.html
  
• Intermountain Combined Heat & Power Center: http://www.intermountainchp.org/
  
• International Ground Source Heat Pump Association http://www.igshpa.okstate.edu/

• National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service http://attra.ncat.org/energy.php

• Farm Energy Calculator: http://attra.ncat.org/energy_calculators.html
  
• Methane to Markets Partnership: http://www.methanetomarkets.org/
  
• USDA Farm Bill: http://www.usda.gov/farmbill2002/ and http://www.eere.energy.gov/windandhydro/windpoweringamerica/ag_farm_bill.asp and 
  
  Roger K Koon, Business & Cooperative Specialist

           USDA Rural Development

           (801)524-4301; roger.koon@ut.usda.gov

• USDA Rural Development – Utah: http://www.rurdev.usda.gov/ut/
  
• US EPA AgSTAR program: http://www.epa.gov/agstar/online_digest.html
  
• Utah Clean Energy: www.utahcleanenergy.org

• Utah State Energy Program: http://geology.utah.gov/sep/

• Utah State University Extension: http://extension.usu.edu/

• Western Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) Office, Utah State University, (435) 797-2257  http://wsare.usu.edu/grants/

• Wind Powering America: http://www.eere.energy.gov/windandhydro/windpoweringamerica/

•  Windustry: www.windustry.com