25x’25 Vision: By 2025, America’s farms, forests and ranches will provide 25 percent of the total energy consumed in the United States, while continuing to produce safe, abundant, and affordable food, feed and fiber.

2018 Goals

Objective:

Support and mobilize renewable energy champions and beneficiaries to ensure continued progress in achieving the 25x’25 renewable energy goal.

2018 Goals:

  • Reframe the national agriculture energy conversation to focus on the benefits to rural America of 25x’25’s renewable energy and adaptation strategies;
  • Protect the federal renewable energy enabling policies;
  • Ensure that biogenic carbon accounting rules allow for the full benefits of biomass energy solution sets to be realized; and
  • Develop and pilot business models and customer engagement programs to support rural electric cooperative distributed renewable energy programs.