09/05/2024
With Tri-Stars, United Power and Core all getting funding for major projects, this should really help Colorado get off coal and move to clean and affordable solar and wind power!
"President Biden will unveil $7.3 billion in grants for the clean energy transition in rural America during a trip to Wisconsin today, in what administration officials called the largest investment in rural electrification since Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal. The money from the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act will go to 16 rural electric cooperatives across 23 states, Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack told reporters on a call previewing the announcement. The funding represents the first round of grants in USDA’s Empowering Rural America — or “New ERA” — program, and will lower annual greenhouse gas emissions by 43.7 million tons, Vilsack said. The Biden administration is pushing to get Inflation Reduction Act dollars out the door as the November election looms and Republicans debate whether and how to roll back the signature climate law."...Semafor
