Applications for Evergreen's solar cells and systems include highway call boxes, microwave stations, street and billboard lighting and off-grid rural electrification.

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When the Rural Electrification Act was passed in 1936, only about 10 percent of rural America had access to utility scale electric power.

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Especially useful is the chapter about the Rural Electrification Administration, which brought cheap power to rural farm areas in the south, stimulating these economic areas.

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Do we really still need the Rural Electrification Administration?

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Rural Electrification Administration combined with the WPA, not only brought electricity to rural America, but also school lunches, new schools, open roads in remote areas, reforestation, and purchased lands to enlarge national forests.

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Expanding rural road networks (in addition to investing in electrification and irrigation) is a strategic investment for rural development and should not be judged against narrowly defined economic criteria.

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