Utility Dive: USDA offers $10.7B for rural electrification and energy transition
16 May 2023
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced Tuesday it will provide $9.7 billion in grants for rural electrification, and $1 billion in partially forgivable loans for renewable energy projects in rural communities.
“This represents the single largest investment in rural electrification since President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Rural Electrification Act into law in 1936,” the USDA said in a news release.
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