{"id":519,"date":"2016-11-17T13:14:45","date_gmt":"2016-11-17T18:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/?p=519"},"modified":"2016-11-17T13:17:20","modified_gmt":"2016-11-17T18:17:20","slug":"helping-maryland-agriculture-industry-become-more-energy-efficienct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/2016\/11\/17\/helping-maryland-agriculture-industry-become-more-energy-efficienct\/","title":{"rendered":"Helping Maryland Agriculture Industry Become More Energy Efficient"},"content":{"rendered":"

Maryland Agricultural Businesses Harness Solar,
\nPocket $74,000 in Annual Savings<\/h2>\n

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For the first time in the program\u2019s history, ten Maryland farms and agricultural businesses leveraged MEA\u2019s Mathias Ag Program to not only significantly reduce energy use, but also to install solar power to reduce their carbon footprint. Grants up to $60,000 supported the installation of eligible energy efficiency and renewable energy measures that enabled a minimum 20% energy savings in the buildings or areas where they were installed. Learn more about how leaders in Maryland\u2019s agriculture sector are harnessing energy efficiency and energy generation to stay competitive by reducing costs in commodity markets. For full details, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Solar Highlights
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Poultry Highlights\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Maryland Agricultural Businesses Harness Solar, Pocket $74,000 in Annual Savings For the first time in the program\u2019s history, ten Maryland farms and agricultural businesses leveraged MEA\u2019s Mathias Ag Program to not only significantly reduce energy use, but also to install solar power to reduce their carbon footprint. Grants up to  …Learn more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":143,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10,26,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-newsletters","category-success-stories"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/143"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":531,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519\/revisions\/531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}