CO: GRANT PROGRAM RETURNS FOR AGRICULTURAL RENEWABLE ENERGY PROPOSALS

News Date September 15, 2009

The Colorado Agricultural Value Added Development Board is offering $500,000 in grant funding to promote agricultural energy related projects in Colorado.

The Board administers the Advancing Colorado’s Renewable Energy (ACRE) program which has provided funds over the past three years to promote energy-related projects beneficial to Colorado’s agriculture industry such as micro-hydro, small-wind, solar, biomass and biofuel projects.  For more information or an application and guidelines, visit: www.colorado.gov/ag/energy(Contact: Christi Lightcap, (303) 239-4190, Christi.lightcap@ag.state.co.us)