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Energy Energy Menu Home Accessibility Posts Topics Introduction to Energy Anaerobic Digestion and Biogas Biodiesel Biomass Combustion Conversion Processes Efficiency and Conservation Feedstocks and Energy Crops Gauging Sustainability Solar Energy Wind Power Ask an Expert Contents Scroll down to content Energy Welcome to the eXtension Energy web resource brought to you by University Extension specialists throughout the United States. The eXtension Energy website is designed to provide timely and practical energy information for agricultural producers and service providers that enhances profitability, conserves natural resources, and promotes the well-being of local communities. Who Are Our Specialists? The Energy Community of Practice is a virtual, or on-line, community which includes over 240 members from land-grant universities and other agencies, including USDA, SARE, NREL, Sun Grant, ATTRA, NCAT, and state and county governments. 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The eXtension Energy website provides fact sheets, research summaries, case studies, decision tools, worksheets, and many other resources to get started on a range of practices, including: Conserving energy through modified farming practices and equipment upgrades Growing and producing your own biofuels Evaluating feedstocks such as switchgrass , algae and sugar crops Calculating wind and solar power potential on your farm Objective and practical information on the Sustainable use and production of Energy Search for: Search Recent Posts Grass to Gas Winter Webinar Series 2023-24 Grass To Gas Anaerobic Digestion Q&A Grass To Gas project Energy Answers for the Beginning er and Rancher NEWBio Team Defines Human Systems Driving the Bioeconomy Transition Categories Categories Select Category Anaerobic Digestion (18) Animal Manure Management (16) Bio (10) Biodiesel (54) Biomass (19) CenUSA (32) Conservation and Efficiency (64) Curriculum (34) Economics (13) Equipment Efficiency (21) Feedstocks (83) Manure Anaerobic Digestion (11) NEWBio (32) Processing (52) SARE (31) Sustainability (47) Switchgrass (18) Uncategorized (15) Wood and Woody Biomass (11) Tags afri anaerobic digestion animal manure management bio biodiesel biogas biomass carlpedersen cenusa checklist combustion conservation and efficiency curriculum danielciolkosz devshrestha dianafriedman economics experts farm building efficiency farm energy iq farm equipment efficiency feedstocks greenhouse efficiency joet johnbartok jonvangerpen manure anaerobic digestion mikemorris newbio nifa processing research summary robertgrisso sare suny-esf susanjharlow sustainability switchgrass tennessee state university tractor efficiency verngrubinger willow wood and woody biomass wood energy zrhelsel Meta Log in Entries feed Comments feed WordPress.org This is a national Cooperative Extension resource This work is supported in part by New Technologies for Agriculture Extension grant no. 2020-41595-30123 from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture. 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