USDA photo by Lance Chang

Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack announced electric cooperatives in 23 states will receive more than $7.3 billion in clean energy grants as part of the Empowering Rural America program. Funding will come from the Inflation Reduction Act.

The project aims to provide farmers with clean energy. It will produce more than 10 gigawatts of clean energy for cooperatives. This claims to be the largest federal investment in rural electrification since President Roosevelt’s New Deal of the 1930s.

The first round of recipients includes:

  • Allegheny Electric Cooperative Inc., Pennsylvania and New Jersey
  • Arizona Electric Power Cooperative, Inc., Arizona, California, Nevada, and New Mexico
  • Basin Electric Power Cooperative, Montana, North Dakota, and South Dakota
  • Buckeye Power, Inc., Ohio
  • CORE Electric Cooperative, Colorado
  • Dairyland Power Cooperative, Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, and Minnesota
  • East Kentucky Power Cooperative, Kentucky
  • Golden Valley Electric Association, Alaska
  • Great River Energy, Minnesota, North Dakota, and Wisconsin
  • Hoosier Energy, Indiana and Michigan
  • Minnkota Power Cooperative, North Dakota and Minnesota
  • San Miguel Electric Cooperative Inc., Texas
  • Seminole Electric Cooperative, Inc., Florida
  • Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association, Inc., Colorado, New Mexico, Nebraska, and Wyoming
  • United Power, Colorado
  • Wolverine Power Supply Cooperative, Michigan

Read more about the Empowering Rural America program here.