Former President Carter, an outspoken critic of fossil fuels and the elite structure who once declared that "America is no longer a Democracy it's an oligarchy" has made another huge leap towards change leasing his peanut farm in Georgia to SolAmerica to provide renewable energy to his city.

Carter a long-time advocate for renewable energy,  leased his 10-acre peanut farm in his hometown to a solar energy company SolAmerica, which is to develop a 1.3-megawatt station that is expected to provide power for more than 50 percent of the electricity in the city Albany Herald reported.

Carter's valiant effort could power an estimated 200 homes while it isn't all of Georgia it's definitely a start.

"Rosalynn and I are very pleased to be a part of SolAmerica's exciting solar project in Plains," said Carter in a press release about the project. "Distributed, clean energy generation is critical to meeting growing energy needs around the world while fighting the effects of climate change. I am encouraged by the tremendous progress that solar and other clean energy solutions have made in recent years and expect those trends to continue."

"I first became acquainted with renewable energy when I was 11 years old," the former President said. "We lived in a home west of Plains, about two and a half miles. We didn't have electricity in our house. We didn't have running water in our house, and my daddy installed a windmill. We then had an indoor bathroom for the first time and a shower bath. My daddy punched holes in the bottom of a tin bucket. Water would pour in the bucket and dribble out on us, so that was our shower bath. That was a very great improvement in my life depending on energy from the sun for wind power."

According to Carter, during his time as governor and later as President, he began to realize the importance of developing renewable energy and it became very clear to him setting a long-term goal that he is now beginning to see come to fruition.

"When I got elected President, I was very eager to see this done, but I even learned about the need for (renewable energy) in an international political way when I was governor," Carter said. "Richard Nixon was president, and as you may or may not remember, back in those days we had an Arab boycott against America, and they refused to send us oil that we needed for gasoline and other purposes. When I was governor, we had very tight restraints on gasoline purchases in America, so when I got to be president, I was very eager to do something about it if I could."

Carter, as President, created the Department of Energy in 1977 and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, in addition, he signed the Public Utility Regulatory Act, all of which were ultimately catalysts for the advancement of renewable energy in the U.S.

Carter was also the first President to have solar panels installed on top of the White House which were only unfortunately later removed by his successor President Ronald Reagan.

"With the help of Congress, we approved an energy department as well as an education department," Carter said Wednesday. "We allotted a great deal of money, several billions of dollars, for research and development in energy. A lot of people have asked me lately, 'We know what Reagan did when he took over and removed the panels, but what do you think President Trump's going to do?' And I don't really know yet.