CENTENNIAL, Colo. — Colorado State University’s Rural Energy Center is offering free solar energy assessments for Colorado animal feeding operations. The assessments will provide feedlots and diversified farms that include livestock with estimated system sizes, costs, savings, and other information needed to decide whether investing in a solar array is a sound investment. Solar systems could be installed on buildings, open space, or even as shade structures over open feedlots. The solar arrays to be evaluated would be tied into the grid and used to offset the electricity costs of pumping water, lighting, ventilation, or other agricultural uses.
Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis until a maximum of 30 are awarded. Applicants must receive 51 percent or more of their gross receipts from agriculture. Visit www.rec.colostate.edu/
Please contact Cary Weiner, CSU Rural Energy Center Director, with questions: cary.weiner@colostate.edu or (970) 491-3784.
— Colorado Farm Bureau
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