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USDA gives renewable energy grants to UP organizations

MARQUETTE, MI— Seven Upper Peninsula agriculture producers and rural businesses are getting grants from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to make investments in renewable energy.

The projects will receive nearly $600,000. They are:

County

Recipient

Amount

Type

Alger

Jubilee Foods, Inc.

$255,377

Refrigeration, Lighting

Alger

Johnson Brothers Construction, Inc.

$33,758

Solar

Delta

Snow Country Hiawatha LLC

$118,894

Solar

Marquette

Maria Del Barrio, Inc.

$38,032

Solar

Marquette

Lakeshore Park of Marquette, Inc.

$31,930

Solar

Marquette

Ore Dock Real Estate LLC

$42,234

Solar

Menominee

Highland Meadows Operation Division LLC

$39,113

Solar

 

The projects are funded through the Rural Energy for America Program.

Nicole was born near Detroit but has lived in the U.P. most of her life. She graduated from Marquette Senior High School and attended Michigan State and Northern Michigan Universities, graduating from NMU in 1993 with a degree in English.