Rep. Tom Tiffany (R-Wis.) has introduced new legislation that would eliminate the energy credit for wind and solar installations if they are operated by a public utility on agricultural land. Known as the Future Agriculture Retention and Management Act of 2022, or FARM Act of 2022, the bill was referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means on Feb. 28. “I kept hearing stories about how productive agricultural land in Wisconsin and around the country was being used for these projects,” Tiffany said in an interview with The Epoch Times. “It deeply concerns me that we’re going to take productive agricultural land out of production for something that’s intermittent and requires enormous subsidies to survive in the marketplace.” The Energy Information Administration (EIA) has found that solar photovoltaic power in Tiffany’s state, Wisconsin, has a capacity factor of just 16 percent, meaning it is far less productive than Wisconsin’s …
New Bill Would Shield Farmland From Key Wind and Solar Subsidy
March 30, 2022
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