{"id":4959,"date":"2026-05-13T22:30:51","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T22:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ruralclimate.org\/?p=4959"},"modified":"2026-08-13T22:02:32","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T22:02:32","slug":"the-case-for-solar-straight-from-the-farm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ruralclimate.org\/da\/the-case-for-solar-straight-from-the-farm\/","title":{"rendered":"Argumentet for solenergi, direkte fra g\u00e5rden"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Fotokredit: American Solar Grazing Association<\/span><\/i><\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>

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I 2025 offentliggjorde USDA sine <\/span>Landm\u00e6nd f\u00f8rst dagsorden<\/span><\/a>, der udsender en opfordring til handling til f\u00f8derale, statslige, regionale og lokale partnere om at tilslutte sig USDA's nye <\/span>G\u00f8r landbruget fantastisk igen<\/span><\/i> Dagsorden. Dagsordenen gennemg\u00e5r bekymringer om brugen af produktiv landbrugsjord til solcelleanl\u00e6g og forst\u00e6rker en fort\u00e6lling om, at energiudvikling og landbrug i sagens natur er i konflikt. For at im\u00f8deg\u00e5 den voksende anti-sol-stemning har RCP lanceret et koordineret, fler\u00e5rigt initiativ for b\u00e6redygtighed i landbruget og solenergi for at bevare landm\u00e6ndenes ret til at diversificere deres indkomster med solenergi og st\u00f8tte modstandsdygtige landdistrikter. Initiativet for b\u00e6redygtighed i landbruget l\u00f8fter stemmerne fra landm\u00e6nd og kv\u00e6gavlere, der har haft direkte gavn af solcelleprojekter p\u00e5 deres jord, og som viser, at solenergi og landbrugsjord kan fungere sammen med solenergi i landbruget. Gennem fortalervirksomhed, koalitionsopbygning og strategisk kommunikation vil disse landdistriktsproducenter engagere politikere for at argumentere for at bevare landm\u00e6ndenes ret til at drage fordel af solenergi p\u00e5 landbrugsjord.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Omformulering af fort\u00e6llingen omkring solenergi og landbrugsjord<\/span><\/h3>\n

Der er stor risiko. Landdistrikterne i Amerika har de n\u00f8dvendige jordressourcer til at opbygge den solcellekapacitet, der er n\u00f8dvendig for at im\u00f8dekomme den stigende energieftersp\u00f8rgsel, skabe nye skatte- og leasingindt\u00e6gter til landdistrikterne og dekarbonisere vores energisystem. Men intet af dette kan ske i den skala, vi har brug for, uden at bruge noget landbrugsjord til solenergi. American Farmland Trust ansl\u00e5r. <\/span>83% af nye solcelleprojekter<\/span><\/a> skal bygges p\u00e5 en eller anden form for landbrugsjord. Alene i 2025, <\/span>mere end 305 placeringsrelaterede regninger<\/span><\/a> blev introduceret i 47 stater, og halvdelen af disse ville g\u00f8re det vanskeligere at lokalisere ren energi. Derudover fandt USA Today, at <\/span>24% af amerikanske amter har nu forordninger<\/span><\/a> som g\u00f8r det vanskeligt eller umuligt at udvikle store vind- eller solprojekter.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

P\u00e5 f\u00f8deralt niveau har genindf\u00f8relsen af Protect American Farmland Act v\u00e6ret ledsaget af betydelig modstand fra USDA. I 2025 <\/span>USDA annoncerede ogs\u00e5<\/span><\/a> at store jordmonterede solcelleanl\u00e6g p\u00e5 landbrug ville blive udelukket fra at f\u00e5 l\u00e5negarantier fra Rural Energy for America Program (REAP) og h\u00f8jst usandsynligt ville f\u00e5 <\/span>REAP-tilskud<\/span><\/a>. Denne \u00e6ndring begr\u00e6nser landm\u00e6ndenes mulighed for at finansiere solcelleprojekter og diversificere deres indkomst betydeligt.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Muligheder for at organisere sig<\/span><\/h3>\n

Farm Viability and Solar Initiative samler adskillige organisationer, der er forpligtet til at opretholde landm\u00e6nds og jordejeres ret til at have solenergi p\u00e5 deres g\u00e5rde og realisere de \u00f8konomiske muligheder, der f\u00f8lger med. Sammen fremmer denne arbejdsgruppe gr\u00e6srodsorganisering til st\u00f8tte for solenergi p\u00e5 landbrugsjord og solenergi i landbruget, m\u00e5lrettede relationer med regeringen og offentlig uddannelse. Gruppen sigter mod at forhindre skadelige reguleringer eller sl\u00f8ve restriktive politikker og at sikre, at landdistrikterne fortsat kan drage fordel af overgangen til ren energi. Vejen til national dekarbonisering l\u00f8ber gennem landdistrikterne i Amerika og dets landbrugsjord. Ved at beskytte solenergi p\u00e5 arbejdsjord sigter Farm Viability and Solar Initiative mod at beskytte b\u00e5de levebr\u00f8det p\u00e5 landet og en fremtid med ren energi.<\/span><\/p>\n

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En koordineret indsats for at beskytte landm\u00e6ndenes rettigheder<\/span><\/h3>\n

Det arbejde er allerede i gang. I februar organiserede Farm Viability and Solar Initiative Working Group sin f\u00f8rste fly-in til Washington, DC, hvor fem landbrugsproducenter tilknyttet arbejdsgruppens medlemsorganisationer m\u00f8dtes med centrale f\u00f8derale politikere. Landm\u00e6nd er ledere i landdistrikterne, og ved at lede denne gruppe var de i stand til at m\u00f8des med politikere, der sandsynligvis ville have afvist andre pro-solar-stemmer, s\u00e5som dem fra solcelleindustriforeninger eller milj\u00f8grupper. <\/span>Over flere dage m\u00f8dtes gruppen med USDA-medarbejdere, en repr\u00e6sentant for Det Hvide Hus, ni medlemmer af Kongressen og flertallet af medarbejdere i Repr\u00e6sentanternes Hus' landbrugsudvalg for at dele personlige historier og <\/span>Forklar fordelene ved solenergiudvikling for landm\u00e6nd og jordejere. <\/span>Ved at fokusere p\u00e5 deres erfaringer som solgr\u00e6ssere flyttede producenterne diskussionen til en, der centrerede sig om landbrugets levedygtighed og stabilitet i landdistrikterne, snarere end om energikilder.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>

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Fotokredit: Skyler Zunk, Energy Right<\/span><\/i><\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>

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Landm\u00e6nd f\u00f8rer an i samtalen i Washington<\/span><\/h3>\n

Gruppens budskab var konsekvent og direkte: Solenergi har holdt landbrugsdriften levedygtig og skabt nye indt\u00e6gtsstr\u00f8mme for landm\u00e6nd og landdistrikter. Derudover er solenergi p\u00e5 landbrugsjord en dobbeltafgr\u00f8de; h\u00f8st af solen og det animalske protein fra de husdyr, som producenterne opdr\u00e6tter. Politikker, der begr\u00e6nser solenergi p\u00e5 landbrugsjord, truer landm\u00e6ndenes levebr\u00f8d og landdistrikternes \u00f8konomi. <\/span>P\u00e5 tv\u00e6rs af m\u00f8derne delte producenterne vigtigheden af frivillige beslutninger om arealanvendelse, fordelene ved private kapitalinvesteringer og \u00f8konomisk v\u00e6kst i landdistrikterne samt solenergiens kompatibilitet med gr\u00e6sning og landbrugsproduktion. Endnu vigtigere forklarede deltagerne lovgiverne, at solenergi p\u00e5 landbrugsjord g\u00f8r det muligt for landm\u00e6nd at <\/span>forts\u00e6tte <\/span><\/i>landbrugsjord, der har v\u00e6ret i deres familier i generationer, hvilket giver et levedygtigt \u00f8konomisk alternativ til at s\u00e6lge deres jord til landbrugsvirksomheder eller lukke deres g\u00e5rde helt.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Opbygning af momentum p\u00e5 f\u00f8deralt niveau<\/span><\/h3>\n

Fly-in-begivenheden markerede begyndelsen p\u00e5 et vedvarende engagement og l\u00e6gger et vigtigt grundlag for fremtidigt samarbejde med f\u00f8derale ledere. Den anden fly-in til Washington, DC, fandt sted i april, hvor tre landbrugsproducenter m\u00f8dtes med syv medlemmer af Kongressen, herunder h\u00f8jtst\u00e5ende medlemmer af Senatsudvalget for Landbrug. En tredje fly-in vil finde sted i juni, hvilket sikrer, at arbejdsgruppen med succes l\u00e6gger fundamentet for et vedvarende engagement og l\u00e6gger et vigtigt grundlag for fremtidigt samarbejde med f\u00f8derale ledere.<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mens en f\u00f8deral tilgang er det f\u00f8rste fokuspunkt for Farm Viability and Solar Initiative, planl\u00e6gger arbejdsgruppen i de kommende m\u00e5neder at udvikle strategier til at engagere sig i statslige og lokale politikker for solcelleplacering. Som en del af sin bredere indsats udvikler den faktablade og andet st\u00f8ttemateriale, der skal hj\u00e6lpe med at forme den nationale fort\u00e6lling om fordelene ved solcelleudvikling p\u00e5 landbrugsjord. Den vil dele det endelige faktablad med centrale partnere og interessenter i de kommende uger.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>

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Rural places and people are at the forefront of the national dialogue this election season. From Tim Walz\u2019s stories of growing up in rural Nebraska and living in southern Minnesota to JD Vance's emphasis on his Appalachian roots in Hillbilly Elegy, both parties increasingly recognize rural America\u2019s key role in the nation\u2019s cultural mindset.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

Engagement with rural communities will also determine our success in meeting the great challenge our country faces with the clean energy transition.<\/span><\/p>

Rural America will make or break our ability to reach our country\u2019s climate goals. A disproportionate amount of climate pollution is produced in small town America, and rural communities face sobering impacts from climate pollution. According to a report released this year by the <\/span>Rural Climate Partnership<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>rural America produces at least 36 percent of U.S. emissions<\/span><\/a>, despite being home to only 18 percent of the U.S. population.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

To put rural America\u2019s emissions into perspective, this is about three times the total emissions from Canada or almost equal to the total emissions from Russia.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

However, it doesn\u2019t mean rural Americans are to blame, nor should we resort to <\/span>harmful, inaccurate stereotypes<\/span><\/a> about them. The energy, food, and industrial goods produced by hardworking rural people are largely consumed in urban areas. With fewer economic alternatives and limited investments made in better production methods, high-emitting practices have become the norm, leaving small towns to deal with localized air pollution, poor water quality, and soil degradation.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

Rural communities, with their close economic ties to the land, are increasingly vulnerable to climate impacts like droughts, heatwaves, fires, and floods. They experience these impacts in the broader context of economic hardship and systemic neglect. Rural counties represent <\/span>86 percent of all counties that face persistent poverty<\/span><\/a>. These communities also saddle higher household energy costs \u2013 <\/span>25 percent higher, on average<\/span><\/a>, than their urban counterparts.<\/span><\/p>

Yet small-town America holds tremendous potential to affect change in ways that can reduce rural emissions while strengthening community resilience and creating economic prosperity. To achieve this potential, rural communities need to be in the driver\u2019s seat.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

While national and state policy is important, critical decisions for climate action are being made by those serving on county planning commissions, city councils, rural electric cooperative boards, and small municipal utility boards.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

For example, nearly half of all U.S. electric power emissions are produced in rural places, and <\/span>60% of coal power generation is produced in rural areas<\/span><\/a>. Through local advocacy and organizing, rural electric cooperatives and municipal utilities can close polluting power plants and invest in beneficial clean energy projects that create new local jobs.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

Rural-led groups like the <\/span>Northern Plains Resource Council<\/span><\/a> in Montana and <\/span>Renew Missouri<\/span><\/a> are working to bring more local voices into energy decisions to advocate for clean energy projects that simultaneously create jobs, improve reliability, and reduce harmful pollution.<\/span><\/p>

Solutions from cities and perceived \u2018coastal elites\u2019 won\u2019t\u2013and don\u2019t\u2013work in small-town America. For example, an increasing number of rural counties are <\/span>banning clean energy development<\/span><\/a>, often driven by a reasonable skepticism towards developers after years of extraction from other outside interests. Like most people, rural people don\u2019t appreciate when decisions are made without their input.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

Local decisions become even more complicated when fossil-fuel-backed organizations spread misinformation in rural communities. These bad actors understand too well that rural opinions matter and use \u201castroturfing\u201d\u2014campaigns that feign to be grassroots\u2014to block clean energy development. No amount of top-down prodding or factsheets from New York or San Francisco can correct this kind of deep-seated misinformation.<\/span><\/p>

What does help counter and prevent misinformation is rural-led organizing, education, and advocacy with trusted, local messengers. Rural groups like <\/span>Groundswell<\/span><\/a> in Georgia and the <\/span>Center for Rural Affairs<\/span><\/a> in Iowa lead grassroots campaigns to help their communities learn about clean energy and make up their own minds about how they want to power their futures. They educate neighbors about clean energy options and share lessons learned from successful projects in other communities.<\/span><\/p>

No matter the election outcome, ongoing support is needed for place-based, rural-led climate efforts. Clean energy, regenerative agriculture, household electrification, and other climate solutions require boots on the ground.<\/span><\/p>

Done right, rural America can reduce emissions while simultaneously preserving rural ways of life, protecting vital working landscapes, and <\/span>creating quality local jobs<\/span><\/a>. The result is a cleaner, safer, more resilient way of life for all Americans.<\/span><\/p>

Maria Doerr is a Program Officer for the Rural Climate Partnership <\/span><\/i><\/p>","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruralclimate.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruralclimate.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruralclimate.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruralclimate.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruralclimate.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4959"}],"version-history":[{"count":36,"href":"https:\/\/ruralclimate.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5046,"href":"https:\/\/ruralclimate.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4959\/revisions\/5046"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruralclimate.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruralclimate.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruralclimate.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruralclimate.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}