U.S. Department of Agriculture

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) leads initiatives in food, agriculture, natural resources, and rural development. It aims to expand markets for agricultural products globally, foster alternative markets domestically, improve rural infrastructure, enhance food safety, promote nutrition education, and manage public lands collaboratively.

David Shapiro-Ilan

Research Entomologist

Past deals in Renewables

MiEnergy Coop

Grant in 2024
MiEnergy Coop provides renewable energy, solar energy, and energy supply services.

MiEnergy Coop

Debt Financing in 2024
MiEnergy Coop provides renewable energy, solar energy, and energy supply services.

San Miguel Electric Cooperative

Grant in 2024
San Miguel Electric Cooperative supplies reliable electricity to rural communities. They offer electricity for rural homes without electric service. They deliver electricity to residents and businesses.

Wright-Hennepin Cooperative Electric Association

Debt Financing in 2024
Wright-Hennepin Cooperative Electric Association is a member-focused utility that delivers electricity and energy-saving programs to enhance the quality of life for its members and the communities it serves. The organization prioritizes integrity, safety, teamwork, and dependable performance, ensuring that it meets the needs of its members through competitive pricing and reliable service. Wright-Hennepin sources its power from Great River Energy, Basin Electric, and MISO, enabling it to provide a stable energy supply while also offering valuable information and programs aimed at energy conservation. Through its commitment to core values and community engagement, Wright-Hennepin strives to foster a sustainable and efficient energy environment.

Union County Electric Cooperative

Debt Financing in 2024
Union County Electric Cooperative provides high-value energy focusing on delivering safe, reliable, environmentally friendly electricity while promoting energy efficiency through education.

Lake Region Electric Cooperative

Debt Financing in 2024
Lake Region Electric Cooperative provides electricity and related product services.

Sawnee EMC

Debt Financing in 2024
Sawnee EMC provides renewable energy solutions and electricity management services for individuals and businesses.

Grand Electric Cooperative

Debt Financing in 2024
Grand Electric Cooperative serves nearly 8,000 square miles of Northwestern South Dakota with dependable electric power.

Benco Electric Cooperative

Debt Financing in 2024
BENCO Electric Cooperative is an electric cooperative serving 19,000 members in south central Minnesota. In addition to energy efficiency, youth education programs, and economic development, the Cooperative has long been in many fields, they are dedicated to preserving and developing this long-standing tradition for their members.

Eastern Maine Electric Co-op

Debt Financing in 2024
Eastern Maine Electric Cooperative (EMEC) is geographically the largest American-owned electric utility in the state.

Tri-County Electric Cooperative

Debt Financing in 2024
Tri-County Electric Cooperative focuses on new construction, energy audits, energy efficiency, solar, generators, and electric services.

PowerSouth Energy Cooperative

Debt Financing in 2024
PowerSouth Energy Cooperative is a provide the power supply needs of its distribution members across Alabama and northwest Florida.

Bon Homme Yankton Electric

Debt Financing in 2024
Bon Homme Yankton Electric is an energy and energy solutions provider company.

Kenergy

Debt Financing in 2024
Kenergy is a company which offers services such as installing street lights, outdoor security lights, and home energy audit.

Verdigris Valley Electric Cooperative

Debt Financing in 2024
VVEC provides electric services to residential, commercial, and industrial consumers. Their service includes electric vehicle information and solar power information services. They provide inquiries through phone calls, emails, and online applications.

Southwest Arkansas Electric

Debt Financing in 2024
Southwest Arkansas Electric provides electric service, online bill payment, solar net metering, and security light services.

Earth Island Institute

Grant in 2024
Earth Island Institute is a nonprofit environmental organization and fiscal sponsor to more than seventy-five projects working in the areas of conservation, energy and climate, women’s environmental leadership, international and Indigenous communities, sustainability and community resilience, and more.

Terraformation

Grant in 2024
Terraformation focuses on reforestation and climate restoration. It provides services to accelerate carbon drawdown by supporting forest creation and restoration projects. The company develops climate-controlled seed banks of native species, pursues low-cost solar-powered desalination to address freshwater shortages, and offers open-source landscape monitoring software to help monitor forest health and progress. Through these offerings, Terraformation enables forest developers around the world to restore degraded ecosystems, increase carbon sequestration, and contribute to climate stabilization.

Working Trees

Grant in 2024
Working Trees is a company focused on deploying silvopasture carbon projects in collaboration with Brazilian farmers. By utilizing advanced sensor technology, including smartphone LiDAR, satellite remote sensing, and machine learning models, the company measures the carbon stored in trees and facilitates ecosystem restoration. Working Trees aims to generate high-quality, technologically verified carbon removal credits for organizations looking to reduce their climate impact. The company has set ambitious goals to deploy 1,000,000 hectares of silvopasture annually by 2030 and to sequester 1 billion tons of carbon per year by 2050, while also enhancing rural economic livelihoods and addressing climate change on a large scale.

Clean Energy Technologies

Grant in 2024
Clean Energy Technologies designs, manufactures, and markets clean energy products focused on energy efficiency and renewable solutions. Its principal product is the Clean Cycle generator, which converts waste heat into electricity. The company also offers engineering services, supply chain management, contract manufacturing of electronic printed circuit board assemblies, and waste-to-energy solutions.

Great River Energy

Grant in 2024
Great River Energy is a electric transmission and generation cooperative.

San Miguel Electric Cooperative

Grant in 2024
San Miguel Electric Cooperative supplies reliable electricity to rural communities. They offer electricity for rural homes without electric service. They deliver electricity to residents and businesses.

Tri-State Generation & Transmission

Grant in 2024
Affordable and reliable power responsibly generated and delivered is the life blood of the rural West.

Wolverine Power Cooperative

Grant in 2024
Wolverine Power Cooperative provides and distributes electricity in rural areas.

Arizona G&T Cooperatives

Grant in 2024
Arizona G&T Cooperatives is a not-profit electric generation and transmission (G&T) cooperatives.

Allegheny Electric Cooperative

Grant in 2024
Allegheny Electric Cooperative is Initiating steps to manage peak demand and support consumer members in building renewable generation systems has been Allegheny's primary focus. Since 1986, water heaters and other appliances have been using power under the Coordinated Load Management System, a demand-side program that assists in shifting electricity use from peak demand periods to off-peak hours. The voluntary initiative does this by lowering expensive demand charges, increasing system efficiency, and lowering the requirement for additional generating capacity. Modern automatic meter reading, load control, and the possibility to use smart meters and smart appliances are all being incorporated into the system update.

Dairyland Power Cooperative

Grant in 2024
Dairyland Power Cooperative is a non-profit organization that provides safe, reliable, affordable & sustainable electricity to its members.

American GreenFuels

Grant in 2024
American GreenFuels LLC is a biodiesel producer based in New Haven, Connecticut, established in 2004. The company specializes in manufacturing biodiesel from natural feedstocks, primarily utilizing reclaimed and waste vegetable oil sourced from restaurants and food manufacturers. American GreenFuels supplies its biodiesel for various applications, including transportation and home heating, catering to a diverse clientele that includes heating oil dealers and individual consumers. Formerly known as Greenleaf Biofuels, LLC, the company rebranded in January 2016 and operates as a subsidiary of Kolmar Americas, Inc.

NW Energy Coalition

Grant in 2024
NW Energy Coalition is committed to helping agricultural farmers and small businesses in rural areas achieve energy efficiency upgrades and renewable energy installations.

Intermountain Aquatics

Grant in 2024
Intermountain Aquatics provides wetlands, ponds, and lakes, sagebrush steppe restoration, big game and waterfowl food plots, native plant revegetation, river restoration, bio-engineered streambank stabilization, trout ponds, spring creek restoration and enhancement, water resource planning, ecologically-based range management plans, integrated weed management, and management intensive grazing plans.

Farmers' Electric Cooperative

Debt Financing in 2024
Farmers' Electric Cooperative is committed to the safety of their employees, members, and their communities. They work for their member and owners and reflect their values.

PlantSwitch

Grant in 2023
PlantSwitch develops compostable bioplastic resins from renewable plant-based materials and agricultural waste streams. It uses proprietary cellulose-based technology to lower biopolymer costs by up to 40% while enhancing sustainability, accessibility and mechanical properties. The resins are derived from renewable resources such as cornstarch and sugarcane and are engineered to degrade more quickly and safely in the environment than conventional plastics. PlantSwitch aims to replace single-use plastics with practical, eco-friendly alternatives and is advancing toward commercialization with its first production facility.

Aemetis

Debt Financing in 2023
Aemetis operates as a renewable fuels and biochemicals company, focusing on the production of advanced biofuels and chemicals. It converts first-generation ethanol and biodiesel plants into advanced biorefineries to replace traditional petroleum-based products. The company owns and operates an ethanol facility in California and a renewable chemical production facility in India. Aemetis sells its products primarily to transport companies, resellers, distributors, refiners, dairies, and feedlots.

Southern Iowa Electric Cooperative

Debt Financing in 2023
Southern Iowa Electric Cooperative is an electric utility serving Southern Iowa. It provides electricity distribution and offers energy efficiency programs, rebates, renewable energy initiatives, electrical safety education, and cooperative membership benefits to its members.

Holmes-Wayne Electric Cooperative

Debt Financing in 2023
Holmes-Wayne Electric Cooperative, Inc. is a member-owned, nonprofit electric cooperative serving company. They provide reliable, competitively-priced electric service for member-owners to enhance the quality of life in the communities. They work for the sustainable development of their communities through policies accepted by their members.

Southern Iowa Electric Cooperative

Grant in 2023
Southern Iowa Electric Cooperative is an electric utility serving Southern Iowa. It provides electricity distribution and offers energy efficiency programs, rebates, renewable energy initiatives, electrical safety education, and cooperative membership benefits to its members.

North West REC

Grant in 2023
North West REC offers energy that is cost-effective, reliable and provides a number of valuable services that benefit their members and surrounding communities. North West REC offers members rebates and incentives on products that promote energy efficiency and save you money for years to come. The categories and requirements for rebates and incentives are outlined below.

Lone Oak Solar

Debt Financing in 2023
Lone Oak Solar Energy Center is a 120-megawatt (MW) solar development. The project is an opportunity to invest in the community, generate jobs, and improve tax revenues while producing clean, American-made energy.

M & A Electric Power Cooperative

Debt Financing in 2023
M & A Electric Power Cooperative is a Generation and transmission (G & T) electric cooperative.

Aemetis

Debt Financing in 2023
Aemetis operates as a renewable fuels and biochemicals company, focusing on the production of advanced biofuels and chemicals. It converts first-generation ethanol and biodiesel plants into advanced biorefineries to replace traditional petroleum-based products. The company owns and operates an ethanol facility in California and a renewable chemical production facility in India. Aemetis sells its products primarily to transport companies, resellers, distributors, refiners, dairies, and feedlots.

West Biofuels

Grant in 2023
West Biofuels designs, procures, and builds (EPC) thermochemical biomass facilities that provide renewable energy, encourage rural economic growth, lower the risk of wildfires, and advance California's climate goals.

Alga Biosciences

Grant in 2023
Alga Biosciences specializes in developing feed additives aimed at reducing agricultural methane emissions produced by cattle. Utilizing biochemistry, the company offers natural red seaweed and other feed additives that effectively mitigate enteric methane emissions in beef cattle and dairy cows. This innovative approach not only helps farmers reduce costs associated with livestock management but also contributes to broader environmental efforts to combat climate change and slow global warming. By targeting methane emissions at the source, Alga Biosciences plays a significant role in promoting sustainable agricultural practices.

Alaska Pwr & Tel

Grant in 2022
Alaska Power and Telephone operates as a communications and utility company that operates the utility-owned solar installation providing electricity. They construct infrastructure to meet connectivity requirements. They provide broadband, data transport, and backhaul network services.

The Climate Trust

Grant in 2022
The Climate Trust is a nonprofit organization that oversees initiatives and programs for companies looking to lessen their carbon footprint. It creates offset initiatives at crucial early stages and oversees them till offset credits are sold. Effective project management, collaboration with partners who share similar goals, and thorough due diligence are all part of gaining an understanding of carbon markets and underlying hazards.

Yard Stick

Grant in 2022
Yard Stick develops a handheld device that measures soil carbon levels in real-time. This enables evidence-based regenerative farming practices, improving soil health, increasing farmer income, and combating climate change by sequestering carbon.

Roeslein Alternative Energy

Grant in 2022
Roeslein Alternative Energy's facilities for producing renewable energy, Agricultural and industrial wastes, as well as renewable biomass feedstocks, are converted into renewable natural gas and sustainable byproducts.

Global Clean Energy Holdings

Grant in 2022
Global Clean Energy Holdings is an integrated renewable fuels company based in the United States, specializing in the production of ultra-low carbon renewable diesel from patented non-food camelina varieties. The company employs a vertically integrated business model that encompasses all aspects of the value chain, from developing and growing camelina to processing, refining, and distributing renewable fuels. Its operations include three key subsidiaries: Sustainable Oils, which focuses on camelina seed and agronomy intellectual property; Bakersfield Renewable Fuels, a large biorefinery being retooled to become the largest of its kind in the Western United States; and Agribody Technologies, which provides additional plant science expertise. The renewable diesel produced by Global Clean Energy Holdings yields 80% fewer emissions compared to fossil diesel and is supported by a long-term purchase commitment from ExxonMobil. The patented camelina variety utilized by the company boasts yields at least twice as high as other types and can be cultivated on fallow land, enhancing farm economics while not displacing existing agricultural use. Additionally, the production process generates high-protein livestock feed as a co-product.

MOVA Technologies

Grant in 2022
Founded in Pulaski, Virginia in 2016, MOVA Technologies develops innovative instrument technology aimed at reducing carbon emissions from industrial plants within the energy sector. The company's modular platform is designed to recycle pollutants for industrial reuse, creating a circular economy model that transforms pollutants into commodities. This approach helps clients reduce emissions while generating new revenue opportunities.

Onvector

Grant in 2021
Founded in 2018, Onvector specializes in non-chemical water treatment technologies using plasma, advanced oxidation, and disinfection processes. Its Plasma Vortex technology effectively treats hard-to-treat contaminants like PFAS chemicals in industrial wastewater.

Ecovia Renewables

Grant in 2015
Founded in 2014, Ecovia Renewables develops bio-based ingredients through a proprietary fermentation process using renewable biomass. Its product portfolio includes EcoSynth platform for biochemicals and biofuels, Ecovia biopolymers for multi-functional applications, and cellulosic biofuels derived from lignocellulosic biomass. These products serve the agriculture and personal care sectors.

Sapphire Energy

Grant in 2009
Sapphire Energy, Inc. is a pioneering company based in San Diego, California, that focuses on producing renewable solutions from algae. Founded in 2007, the company utilizes sunlight, carbon dioxide, non-potable water, and non-arable land to cultivate algae in outdoor ponds, which generates biomass that can be transformed into high-value products, including oils, aquaculture and animal feeds, and renewable fuels. Sapphire Energy is unique in its approach, as its processes rely solely on photosynthetic microorganisms, distinguishing them from traditional biofuels that often depend on food crops. The company's products are designed to enhance and replace petroleum-based materials while being compatible with existing infrastructure. Sapphire operates a research and development facility in Las Cruces, New Mexico, and is developing an Integrated Algal BioRefinery in Columbus, New Mexico, with the aim of advancing the renewable energy landscape and contributing to a more sustainable planet.

M & A Electric Power Cooperative

M & A Electric Power Cooperative is a Generation and transmission (G & T) electric cooperative.
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