Free federal audits help identify and fund energy-efficient projects for small rural businesses.
A free, federally funded energy-audit program is helping small rural businesses find ways to be more energy efficient.
The program helps identify and fund small-scale projects that cost $50,000 or less, paid in part by grants and loans from the U.S. Agriculture Department.
“(The programs) are concerned with helping people figure out green technologies and energy savings and in the process take a step toward rural self-sufficiency,” Charles Clark, who works for the Oregon Renewable Energy Center, said in a news release…
Small businesses, farms, ranches and other agricultural operations in rural areas of Deschutes County, along with those in Klamath and Lake counties and Modoc and Siskiyou counties in California, are eligible for the free assessments.
Read the full story at The Bulletin.
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