LINCOLN- On Monday, it was announced that the Lyons-based Center for Rural Affairs would receive a $62 million federal grant to help make solar energy more accessible and affordable to a wider slice of Nebraskans. The "Solar for All" grant is meant to help the Center install power systems for more than 9,000 historically disadvantaged Nebraska households that stand to save roughly 20% in monthly utility costs.

The funds are also designed to create jobs, reduce pollution, and increase the amount of deployed solar energy in the state by more than 60%, according to Brian Depew, executive director of the Center for Rural Affairs. "It's exciting," he said, "We are just at the vanguard of solar in Nebraska, and this can be part of building our solar industry in a way that goes beyond the folks we'll be able to serve through this project."

Coinciding with Earth Day, the Biden Administration announced the Center for Rural Affairs as one of 60 awardees set to share $7 billion worth of Solar for All grants. The federal Environmental Protection Agency described the Nebraska project as the state's first to ensure that low-income and disadvantaged households in the state have equitable access to solar power.

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