{"id":5427,"date":"2023-05-16T12:45:47","date_gmt":"2023-05-16T12:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/?p=5427"},"modified":"2023-05-16T12:48:34","modified_gmt":"2023-05-16T12:48:34","slug":"biden-administration-announces-11-billion-for-rural-clean-energy-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/5427\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden administration announces $11 billion for rural clean energy projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\" itemprop=\"description\">\n<p>Rural electric cooperatives, utilities, and other energy providers will soon be able to apply for nearly $11 billion in grants and loans for clean energy projects, funded by the $430 billion Inflation Reduction Act signed into law last August, the Biden administration said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Expanding clean energy to rural communities is critical to meeting the administration&#8217;s goal of net-zero emissions by 2050, officials told reporters on a Monday press call.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;This is an exciting and an historic day and continues an ongoing effort to ensure that rural America is a full participant in the clean energy economy,&#8221; said Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack on the call.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rural electric cooperatives will be eligible to apply beginning July 31 for $9.7 billion in grants for deploying renewable energy, zero-emission, and carbon capture systems, the Department of Agriculture (USDA) said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Renewable energy developers and electric service providers like municipal and Tribal utilities will be eligible to apply beginning June 30 for another $1 billion in partially forgivable loans for financing wind, solar, geothermal, biomass, and other renewable energy projects, USDA said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the call with reporters, White House advisor John Podesta said the money would bring good-paying jobs to rural communities and National Climate Advisor Ali Zaidi said the investment would be a &#8220;game-changer.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new funds will help rural electric cooperatives reach parity with private utility companies who have already begun significant investment in clean energy, Vilsack told reporters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We have a climate crisis that requires all of America to participate in reducing emissions to get to the net-zero future,&#8221; Vilsack said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rural electric cooperatives serve 42 million people and draw about 22% of their energy from renewable sources, according to the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association.<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-date no-social-btn post-updated\">Updated on<time class=\"updated dt-updated\" itemprop=\"dateModified\" datetime=\"2023-05-16T12:48:34+00:00\"> 16 May 2023<\/time><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rural electric cooperatives, utilities, and other energy providers will soon be able to apply for nearly $11 billion in grants and loans for clean energy projects, funded by the $430 billion Inflation Reduction Act signed into law last August, the Biden administration said on Tuesday. Expanding clean energy to rural communities is critical to meeting [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17,36,19,16,35],"tags":[],"services":[],"class_list":["post-5427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy","category-lastnews","category-news","category-oil","category-topnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5427"},{"taxonomy":"services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/services?post=5427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}