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The Rural Energy for America Program (REAP), administered by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), offers Renewable Energy Systems and Energy Efficiency Improvement Guaranteed Loans and Grants. This grant and loan offering from USDA Rural Development can help farmers and rural small businesses to make renewable energy and energy efficiency improvements - including installing solar panels.

With thousands of happy solar power customers, we’ve collected a lot of great Solar Stories about why people made the switch. Here are a few comments we’ve received from Iowa solar energy customers - some of these could even live in your neck of the woods!

Iowa is a great state for solar. Although you might question Iowa’s potential for solar energy production, you might be surprised to know that Iowa is pretty well suited for solar. On average, the state sees about 4.5 hours a day of “solar-friendly sunlight.”

Wind power has had a headstart, but solar energy in Iowa is moving towards realizing its potential. With Iowa’s central location in the middle of the United State, where importing fuels increases energy costs, diversification of renewable energy sources has become a priority in the Hawkeye State. Even when dark and snowy Iowa winters are taken into account, the average annual sunlight hours and clear sunny days makes solar power a great investment.

In 2009, Andy Johnson, Craig Mosher, and some friends began getting together at environmentally-conscious Luther College in Decorah, Iowa, to talk about sustainability. “The general concern was climate change,” Mosher told Karen Uhlenhuth of Energy News Network, “but the specific concern was energy, and what we could do to reduce energy use and to shift to renewables.”

It’s not like Adam Browning was unaware of environmental and energy issues in 2001, when he had his awakening about the potential of solar energy. After graduating from college, he’d worked in the Peace Corps, then joined the Environmental Protection Agency, where he worked on enforcing pollution regulations in San Francisco—essentially trying to monitor and regulate how much smoke was coming out of smokestacks.

Broadway Storage is a small chain of self-storage facilities with a mission of serving its community. Recently the company decided to make a bold stand; not only to do right by its neighbors and customer base, but also to the larger world community as a whole— by making switch to green energy, with two solar installations from All Energy Solar.

Celebrate with us the LARGEST multi-tenant solar installation ever built in the Midwest on Wednesday, September 10th, from 1:00-3:00PM at Kirkwood Court Campus View Apartments, Cedar Rapids, Iowa!

Warm weather inspires many people to look at ways to make their homes more comfortable and attractive.  If sunny days bring you outdoors to improve your landscaping and home exterior, you aren’t alone.  In fact, home improvement stores see a dramatic increase in customers during the pleasant spring months.