How Wind and Solar Power Helps Keep America’s Farms Alive

How Wind and Solar Power Helps Keep America’s Farms Alive

This story was originally published by The Conversation. Drive through the plains of Iowa or Kansas and you’ll see more than rows of corn, wheat and soybeans. You’ll also see towering wind turbines spinning above fields and solar panels shining in the sun on barns and machine sheds. For many farmers, these are lifelines. Renewable energy provides steady income and affordable power, helping farms stay viable when crop prices fall or drought strik…

New rules for wind, solar farms cut deeper than industry expected

Wind and solar power remain on the president’s radar as industries not only to cut but to reshape by quashing the previous administration’s implementations.

Trump’s Attack on Wind, Solar Cuts Deeper Than Industry Expected - Energy News, Top Headlines, Commentaries, Features & Events

The Trump administration has instituted permitting reviews and imposed standards that threaten US wind and solar developments, and has rescinded Biden-era decisions earmarking coastal waters for future wind turbines. The actions have contributed to the cancellation or delay of more than $22 billion worth of clean energy projects since January and the loss of thousands ...