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Rural Energy for America Program
Powering Affordable Clean Energy PACE Program
Powering Affordable Clean Energy PACE Program
USDA is announcing $145 million in funding for 700 loan and grant awards through the Rural Energy for America Program (REAP) to help agricultural producers and rural small business owners make energy efficiency improvements and renewable energy investments to lower energy costs, generate new income, and strengthen the resiliency of their operations. This funding is made possible in part by President Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act – the nation’s largest-ever investment in combatting the climate crisis.
Powering Affordable Clean Energy PACE Program
Powering Affordable Clean Energy PACE Program
Powering Affordable Clean Energy PACE Program
What does this program do?
The Powering Affordable Clean Energy (PACE) program is part of the Inflation Reduction Act, which represents the largest investment in rural electrification since President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed the Rural Electrification Act into law in 1936. With $1 billion in funding, PACE helps make clean, affordable, and reliable energy accessible to the people of rural America.
Under PACE, USDA Rural Development’s Rural Utilities Service (RUS) will forgive up to 60 percent of loans for renewable energy projects that use wind, solar, hydropower, geothermal, or biomass, as well as for renewable energy storage projects.
PACE funding makes it more affordable for rural Americans to use clean, reliable energy to heat and cool their homes, run their businesses, and power their cars, schools, and hospitals.
Who is eligible for this program?
The PACE program is available to eligible applicants that generate electricity for resale to residents in both rural and nonrural areas. However, at least 50 percent of the population served by your proposed renewable energy project must live in communities with populations of 20,000 or fewer.
Eligible entities include:
- Corporations, states, and territories, along with their subdivisions and agencies
- Municipalities
- Utility districts
- Cooperatives
- Nonprofits
- Indian Tribes
- Alaska Native, regional, or village corporations
- Limited Liability Companies or other for-profit entities organized under the laws of any U.S. state or territory.
We will only accept one application from each eligible entity. However, eligible groups can collaborate to package their proposed projects into one joint letter of interest.