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Saturday, April 05, 2025
The Agriculture Department is lifting a freeze on clean energy funding programs but giving applicants 30 days to modify their proposals to remove unspecified references to DEI and “climate mandates.” A notice obtained by Agri-Pulse laid out options for revising projects.
Generation and transmission cooperatives that supply the nation's rural electric cooperatives are moving forward with carbon capture projects, but officials question whether meeting EPA's new standards is achievable. There are wildly varying estimates in the power industry about the cost of using the technology to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Rural power utilities apprehensively await litigation in a federal appeals court over a new EPA rule that requires the use of expensive carbon capture technology for existing coal-fired generation. CCS is considered the best available technology, and EPA expects that it can capture 90% of plant emissions.
President Joe Biden's goal of making U.S. electric power carbon-free by 2035 looks very doable or quite challenging and expensive to meet depending on where you live, work or farm in rural America.
Rural electric cooperatives, satellite and telecom companies are among 386 applicants eligible for the Federal Communications Commission’s high-speed internet funding reverse auction next week, and stakeholders will be watching to ensure funding builds out broadband in unserved areas as intended.
