Rural Electrification Loans and Loan Guarantees
Department Of Agriculture, Rural Utilities Service
This program is to provide lower cost financing for rural utilities to assure that people in eligible rural areas have access to electric services comparable in reliability and quality to the rest of the Nation and to assist electric utilities in implementation of demand-side management, energy efficiency and conservation programs and on-grid and off-grid renewable energy systems.
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Helps electric cooperatives in rural areas pay for modernizing and expanding their electric services. Provides loans and loan guarantees for reliable, affordable electricity.
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What Is This Program?
What Benefits Are Offered?
Provides leadership and capital to maintain, expand, upgrade, and modernize America's vast rural electric infrastructure. Offers direct loans, loan guarantees (FFB), grants, and other energy project financing to electric utilities and other eligible entities serving rural areas. Includes financing for electric distribution facilities, energy efficiency, conservation, and renewable energy projects. Insured loans primarily finance construction of electric distribution facilities.
Who Is Eligible?
Business Size: medium, large
Industries: electric utilities, energy projects, energy efficiency, renewable energy
Region: rural areas, rural communities
Other Criteria: wholesale and retail providers of electricity, nonprofit and cooperative associations, public bodies, other utilities that serve customers in rural areas, energy project developers for distributed energy projects, existing Rural Utilities Service (RUS) borrowers (for specific sub-programs like EECLP, ERC), rural utilities and other companies providing energy efficiency loans to qualified consumers (for RESP), energy providers and other eligible entities in areas with extremely high per-household energy costs (275% of national average or higher)
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📋What Are the Application Steps & Timeline?
- 📝Steps to Apply
- Obtain a Level 2 eAuthentication ID
- Log into RDApply
- Complete the application form
- Upload required attachments
- Sign certifications
- Submit the application
- 🌐Application Portal
- http://www.rd.usda.gov/programs-services/rd-apply
- 📤Submission Method
- online
- 🔄Intake Type
- rolling
📄What Documents Are Required?
- ✅Required Documents
- SF-424 (Application for Federal Assistance)
- SF-424A (Budget Information - Non-Construction)
- SF-424B (Assurances)
- Project Narrative
- Budget Narrative
- indirect cost rate agreement
- IRB approval letter
- environmental review
- 📐Format Requirements
- PDF only, max 10MB
- ✉️Supporting Letters
- Letters of support/reference may be required.
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💰What Expenses Are Eligible?
- 🧾Eligible Expenses
- construction of electric distribution facilities
- energy efficiency and conservation projects
- renewable energy projects
- 💳Payment Model
- mixed
🤝Is Matching Funding Required?
- 🔀Matching Required
- Yes
- 📊Matching Ratio
- 25% minimum
- 🏦Eligible Matching Sources
- cash
- in-kind contributions
- 📚Stacking Rules
- Yes, can combine with other government funding
- 🛡️Proof of Matching Required
- Documentation of matching funds required
📊What Are the Reporting Requirements?
- 🗓️Reporting Frequency
- annual
- 📑Reporting Requirements
- SF-425 Federal Financial Report
- performance progress report
- 🔍Audit Requirements
- OMB Uniform Guidance Single Audit if the recipient expends $750,000 or more in federal awards.
- 📢Branding Requirements
- Acknowledgment of federal funding is required in all communications and materials related to the project.
- 🗄️Record Retention Period
- 3 years post-final-report
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FAQFrequently Asked Questions
This program is available to medium, large businesses in electric utilities, energy projects, energy efficiency industries located in rural areas, rural communities.
This program offers funding up to $9,999,999,999 (minimum $56,000).
This program accepts applications on a rolling basis.
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