Agency: Department of Agriculture-Rural Utilities Service
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Powering Affordable Clean Energy (PACE) program
Agency: Department of Agriculture-Rural Utilities Service Description: To provide partially forgivable loans to renewable-energy developers and electric service providers, including municipals, cooperatives, and investor-owned and Tribal utilities, to help finance large-scale solar, wind, geothermal, biomass, hydropower projects and energy storage in support of renewable energy systems. Projects must be based on bankable power purchase…
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Empowering Rural America (New ERA)
Agency: Department of Agriculture-Rural Utilities Service Description: Loans and other financial assistance for “… the greatest reduction in carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide emissions associated with rural electric systems through the purchase of renewable energy, renewable energy systems, zero-emission systems, and carbon capture and storage systems, to deploy such systems, or to make…
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Rural eConnectivity Pilot Program (ReConnect)
Agency: Department of Agriculture – Rural Utilities Service Description: The ReConnect Program offers loans, grants, and loan-grant combinations to cover the costs of construction, improvement, or acquisition of facilities and equipment needed to provide broadband service capable of delivering at a minimum speeds of 100/20 Mbps and the acquisition of an existing system not…
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Rural Broadband Program
Agency: Department of Agriculture – Rural Utilities Service Description: The Rural Broadband Program provides loans for the costs of construction, improvement, or acquisition of facilities and equipment needed to provide service at the broadband lending speed (25/3 Mbps) in eligible rural areas. Up to 4% of the funding may be used for administrative costs…
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Broadband Loans
Agency: Department of Agriculture – Rural Utilities Service Description: Direct loans for broadband infrastructure: broadband loans provide funding on a technology-neutral basis for financing: the construction, improvement, and acquisition of facilities required to provide broadband service, including facilities required for providing other services through the same facilities; the cost of leasing facilities required to…