All Programs

This program provides loan guarantees up to $250 million to assist in the development, construction and retrofitting of new and emerging technologies.

This program offers loan guarantees to lenders for their loans to rural businesses.

This program provides technical assistance to rural water systems that are experiencing day-to-day operational, financial or managerial issues.

This program provides financial assistance to eligible applicants that will provide broadband service in rural, economically-challenged communities where service does not exist.

This program provides affordable funding to develop essential community facilities in rural areas.

This program provides loan guarantees to eligible lenders to develop essential community facilities in rural areas.

This program assists the Denali Commission in lowering the cost of energy for families and individuals in areas with extremely high per-household energy costs (275% of the national average or higher).

This program can provide loans and loan guarantees to energy project developers for distributed energy projects including renewables that provide wholesale or retail electricity to existing Electric Program borrowers or to rural communities served by other utilities.

This program makes insured loans and loan guarantees to nonprofit and cooperative associations, public bodies, and other utilities. Insured loans primarily finance the construction of electric distribution facilities in rural areas.

This program helps eligible communities prepare, or recover from, an emergency that threatens the availability of safe, reliable drinking water.

The Energy Efficiency and Conservation Loan Program (EECLP) provides loans to finance energy efficiency and conservation projects for commercial, industrial, and residential consumers. With the EECLP, eligible utilities, including existing Rural Utilities Service borrowers can borrow money tied to Treasury rates of interest and re-lend the money to develop new and diverse energy service products within their service territories.

The Energy Resource Conservation (ERC) Program enables current Rural Utilities Service (RUS) borrowers to make funds available to their consumers for energy conservation and renewable energy projects by deferring payment of principal and interest.  

This program helps remote Alaskan villages provide safe, reliable drinking water and waste disposal systems for households and businesses.

This program provides funds to households in an area recognized as a Colonia before October 1, 1989.

This program provides 1 percent low-interest loans to local lenders or “intermediaries” that re-lend to businesses to improve economic conditions and create jobs in rural communities.