Innovative Clean Energy Loan Guarantees
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Eligible Recipients:
- Private Sector
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- Energy Infrastructure
- Environmental Clean-up
- Health and Safety
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Overview
LPO provides loan guarantees for Innovative Clean Energy Projects under the Title 17 Innovative Clean Energy Loan Guarantee Program (Title 17), authorized by the Energy Policy Act of 2005. Title 17 helps eliminate gaps in commercial financing for energy projects in the United States that utilize innovative technology to reduce, avoid, or sequester greenhouse gas emissions.
What value can LPO bring as a lender to my project? LPO administers three distinct loan programs, but all can provide a similar value to borrowers:
- Access to Debt Capital: Through Title 17, LPO can provide access to debt capital for large-scale energy projects that use innovative technology. Projects using technology that has not been deployed at commercial-scale often face difficultly accessing debt from private lenders because the technology does not have a history of commercial operation.
- Flexible, Custom Financing: LPO can provide financing that meets the specific needs of individual borrowers. LPO can be the sole lender to a project or can co-lend with or guarantee loans from private lenders. Additionally, LPO has capacity to finance large projects as a sole lender or to fill gaps in financing as part of a group of lenders.
- Committed Partnership: Lenders often prefer to engage with a project when the deal is fully formed; however, LPO encourages early engagement during project development. LPO can take the time to dive deep and understand the project and its technology. And after loan closing, LPO remains a valuable partner to borrowers throughout the entire loan term.
- Specialized Experience: LPO maintains an in-house team of financial, technical, legal, and environmental experts that has expertise with first-of-kind projects and a variety of deal structures. To date, LPO has provided more than $30 billion in debt financing.
Is my project eligible? A project must meet all of the following requirements to be eligible for a Title 17 loan guarantee:
- Meet “Eligible Project” requirements as defined by an open solicitation in one or more of the technology areas described therein.
- Employ new or significantly improved technology as compared to commercial technology in service in the United States at the time the guarantee is issued.
- Avoid, reduce, or sequester anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases.
- Be located in the United States. Foreign ownership or sponsorship of the projects is permissible as long as the project is located in one of the fifty states, the District of Columbia, or a U.S. territory.
- Provide a reasonable prospect of repayment.
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Additional information is available on the Resources page.Funding Details
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Potential applicants are encouraged to engage directly with LPO for no-fee, no-commitment consultations to discuss their proposed project and learn about LPO’s process before formally applying. Email [email protected] to request a consultation with an LPO staff member.