You grow.
We’ll navigate the incentives
For a century, U.S. farm policy has been about one thing — affordable, secure food — not carbon or efficiency. Fifty Under sits where agriculture meets energy, where new federal rules finally make decarbonizing your operation pay. The rules are complicated. Managing them is our job, not yours.
Built for food, not carbon
American farm policy has always had a clear mission: keep food affordable and the supply secure. Through the Farm Bill, most federal support flows to crop insurance and commodity price supports — programs like Agriculture Risk Coverage (ARC) and Price Loss Coverage (PLC) that carry you through bad weather and volatile markets. Both are good and necessary. But because that's where the dollars have gone, agriculture has drawn far less decarbonization capital than sectors like transportation and electricity.
Decarbonization capital went almost everywhere else
More than $2 trillion a year now flows into the global energy transition. Almost all of it lands in electrified transport, electricity, and the grid. Agriculture barely registers — it isn't even a tracked investment category.
At the intersection of agriculture and energy
Fifty Under isn't only an ag company or only an energy company — it's both. We bring energy-sector capital and infrastructure discipline onto the farm, in a form built around how you actually operate. Sitting at that intersection is how we turn energy policy into something useful for agriculture — and something useful for you and your farm.
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act changed the map
In 2025, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) rewrote federal clean-energy tax credits. Wind and solar were put on a fast sunset — the commercial credit disappears for new projects placed in service after 2027, and residential clean-energy credits ended in 2025. But the commercial investment credit for geothermal was preserved on a long runway: full value through 2032, stepping down only in 2034–2036. Ground-source heat pumps are now one of the very few farm-ready ways to decarbonize that still carry durable federal support — and that's exactly what we build.
The incentive is real. The paperwork is brutal.
Qualifying for and capturing these credits — then stacking them with grants, depreciation, and state and utility programs — is complex, and the rules keep moving. Because Fifty Under builds, owns, and operates the system, we carry that burden, not you.
We hold the credits
In our Geothermal-as-a-Service model, Fifty Under puts up the capital and claims the incentives — then passes the value back to you as savings embedded in the REF.
We manage the rules
Eligibility, timing, compliance, and stacking federal, state, and utility programs — we handle the moving parts so a missed deadline never costs you.
You focus on growing
No forms, no tax maneuvering, no policy-watching. You run your operation; we run the government-support side.