USDA makes $1.4 billion investment in south Texas power plant

 

A South Texas electric cooperative received more than $1 billion from the USDA to switch its electrical power production to battery and solar energy.

The San Miguel Electric Cooperative received $1.4 billion investment to power 47 counties using renewable energy. The Agriculture Department said the wind and solar power production will have the environmental equivalent of removing 446,000 cars from the road every year. It will also create up to 600 new jobs.

The large investment came just 5 years after the cooperative stood accused of coal ash pollution that affected local wildlife and the groundwater and drinking water in the region.

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