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Providing energy efficiency, renewable energy opportunities for Iowa’s small/mid-sized farming operations

Providing energy efficiency, renewable energy opportunities for Iowa’s small/mid-sized farming operations. National Center for Appropriate Technology. Farm Energy Working Group Statewide Network

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Providing energy efficiency, renewable energy opportunities for Iowa’s small/mid-sized farming operations

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  1. Providing energy efficiency, renewable energy opportunities for Iowa’s small/mid-sized farming operations National Center for Appropriate Technology

  2. Farm Energy Working Group Statewide Network Helping Iowa farmers increase energy efficiency, decrease reliance on fossil fuels.

  3. Mission Support research, education, and implementation of a variety of energy conservation, efficiency, and renewable energy practices from on-farm resources to meet the needs of Iowa's small and mid-sized farms.

  4. Learn from each other Invited speakers from other states, working group Farm Energy Accomplishments --What do we do?

  5. Learn from each other

  6. Mini-grant Program

  7. Sponsor Workshops Helped sponsor 3 workshops for REAP grant writing training

  8. Micro-Scale Biogas Workshop Example of biomass used to produce biogas and reduce use of propane, natural gas or electric usage.

  9. Field Trips - Energy from the Farm Farmers Electric Cooperative (FEC) Solar Array Program

  10. Leighton Yoder, Wellman, IA 18 kW Jacobs wind turbine, 120’ tower $25,000 Jacobs wind turbine Field Trips

  11. Pheasant Ridge Farm Eric & Ann Franzenburg, Van Horne, IA Corn furnace for water-based heating

  12. Francis & Susan Thicke, Fairfield, IA Solar PV to run pump Radiance Dairy Farm

  13. PV panel near pond -- runs pump to use pond water to fill 4,000 gallon storage tank. Water is gravity-fed to watering troughs around the dairy farm.

  14. 2011-12 Projects • Develop templates for 3 grant projects, help farmers write • Develop business plan • Evaluate work

  15. www.ceee.uni.edu/farmenergy.aspx • Carole Yates • Rich Dana • Kamyar Enshayan

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