The number of farms in the United States with alternative energy is growing

American statistics every five years, conduct research regarding used of farms the country's energy sources. According to the last of them, fully or partially at the expense of alternative sources of energy provided by power consumption by 57 299 farms. Analyzing this figure it can be two, opposite in nature, a conclusion.

Compared with five years ago, when alternative energy was used in 23 451 farm is clearly visible to more than double the growth, showing a significant increase in the popularity of renewable energy.





But if you compare with the total number of farms on the territory of the United States of America, of which there are more than two million, the number of farmers using innovative technologies of energy supply, still looks negligible.

Explanation there are several.

The first thing affects the lack of dissemination of alternative sources of energy on American farms, the high cost of the equipment required, which, though already sold in almost every store for the garden, but accessible is not one of them. Even with the various programmes of state aid and subsidies, installation of solar panels or wind turbines can afford only wealthy farmers or ardent nature defenders, for whose profit and profitability are not in the first place.

And secondly, the use of renewables requires either learning their operation of the existing farm workers, or recruitment of additional specialists, which also entails considerable costs.

And in light of all this, to talk about the benefits and payback of this equipment, be very careful, because the actual dates and numbers often differ from those claimed by the manufacturers.

Finally, we note that the most popular with American farmers are solar panels, which are used for 36 thousand households.





Wind turbines and geothermal pumps installed at the 9 thousand farms, micro-hydro 1.3 thousand biogas plants – 537 farms.



Source: zeleneet.com