{"id":5472,"date":"2024-06-13T05:34:04","date_gmt":"2024-06-13T05:34:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ausgrant.com.au\/?p=5472"},"modified":"2024-06-13T05:34:04","modified_gmt":"2024-06-13T05:34:04","slug":"rural-energy-for-america-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ausgrant.com\/au\/rural-energy-for-america-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Rural Energy for America Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>About<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Rural Energy for America Program is a program that incentivizes grants to producers within the agricultural and rural small businesses to invest and develop renewable energy systems.<\/p>\n<p>This program aims at promoting a more efficient and sustainable operations targeted at farmers and ranchers that run small businesses.<\/p>\n<p>The program offers two types of assistance:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Incentives and loans to eligible applicants for energy efficiency improvements and purchase of renewable energy systems (i.e. solar panels);<\/li>\n<li>Incentives to service providers that work with farmers and small rural businesses for renewable energy planning and development.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Eligibility<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>To be eligible for this program applicants must:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Have at least 50% of their gross income derived from agricultural operations;<\/li>\n<li>Be a small business in an eligible rural area<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Eligible rural areas are considered:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>An area outside of a city or town with a population of less than 50,000;<\/li>\n<li>Agricultural producers can be from a rural or non- rural area;<\/li>\n<li>Eligible business addresses can be checked <a href=\"https:\/\/eligibility.sc.egov.usda.gov\/eligibility\/welcomeAction.do?pageAction=RBSmenu&amp;NavKey=property@13\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Available funding:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Loans up to 75% of the total cost of the eligible project;<\/li>\n<li>Grants up to 25% of the total cost of the eligible project;<\/li>\n<li>Combination of loan and grant of up to 75% od the total cost incurred by the eligible project.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To find out whether your business is eligible contact us <a href=\"https:\/\/ausgrant.com.au\/contact-us\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About The Rural Energy for America Program is a program that incentivizes grants to producers within the agricultural and rural <a href=\"https:\/\/ausgrant.com\/au\/rural-energy-for-america-program\/\" style=\"float:right; padding-bottom:10px;\"><br \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.1.1 - 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