American farmers and renewable energy

According to the latest data, 57299 farms in the United States used received directly at the place of power from its own renewable sources. These figures are twice higher than those obtained in 2007. Then the use of renewable energy said on 23 451 farm.





The most popular resource is the Sun. The energy use of 36 thousand farms. To geothermal sources and wind energy running 9 thousand farms. 1300 farms use micro-hydro, and 537 have the facility for production and use of biogas.

However, experts point out well-known conservatism of American farmers: and the noticeable changes in the absolute figures are still low – because in the United States in 2012 there were 2.1 million farms.

Source: greenevolution.ru