Assistance program
Rural Electrification Loans and Loan Guarantees
$1.6 Billion committed in FY2018–FY2026
- Agency
- Rural Utilities Service, Agriculture, Department of
- Assistance
- Direct Loans;Guaranteed/Insured Loans
- CFDA number
- 10.850
- What it does
- 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 borrowers in implementation of demand-side management, energy efficiency and conservation programs and on-grid and off-grid renewable energy systems.
- Who benefits
- Persons, businesses, public bodies, tribal entities, and other entities in rural areas (as defined in program regulations) or those currently served through RUS electric loans. Rural areas are defined in the Rural Electrification Act and program regulations as any area of the United States, or eligible insular areas, other than a city, town, or unincorporated area that has a population of greater than 20,000 inhabitants, or any area within a service area of an entity with an outstanding Rural Electrification Act loan on June 18, 2008.
- Who applies
- Rural electric cooperatives, public utility districts, municipalities, corporations, and other qualified power suppliers including those located in the U.S. Territories, the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau.
- Authorized by
- Rural Electrification Act of 1936, as amended, 7 U.S.C. 901-950.
Committed by fiscal year
* FY2026 is year-to-date — the fiscal year is still in progress, so its total is still filling in. The striped band and dashed line mark that provisional stretch.
Top recipients
By dollars committed.
How to read these numbers
- Committed through this program
Money committed under this assistance listing (its CFDA program), counted in the year each action happened.
- How it's paid
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- Awards, counted once
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- The colored bars
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Direct payments